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Over a third of British students find jobs “online” to fund university life, new research has revealed. Money saving website www.VoucherCodesPro.co.uk has discovered that 23% of UK students who worked online to fund university life sold clothes, whilst 19% undertook “webcam work” and 11% worked in pornography. A total...

The University of Nottingham has placed within the top 2% of global universities, according to the QS World University Rankings 2015. The University has improved by seven points, rising to joint 70th place in 2015 after coming 77th in 2014. The University also came 14th out of 75 UK universities mentioned in the...

The brother of Dame Cicely Saunders, the pioneer of the modern hospice, is scheduled to speak at the University of Nottingham in late September. Christopher Saunders, former trustee and now life president of Cicely Saunders International, will deliver a guest seminar entitled The Hospice Movement — Then and Now: From...

The University of Nottingham has been shortlisted for four awards in the Times Higher Education 2015 Awards. The awards for which the University has been nominated are Outstanding Employer Engagement Initiative, Outstanding Contribution to Leadership Development, Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers, and Entrepreneurial University of the Year. John...

University of Nottingham graduate Marc Wileman won a £50,000 investment when he appeared on BBC2’s Dragons’ Den in August. Mr Wileman’s business, Sublime Science, aims to make science more exciting for children by running parties with fun experiments as well as hosting live shows, selling books, activity products, and workshops. Mr...

Cripps Health Centre, located on University Park campus, is the first GP surgery in Nottingham to be labelled “outstanding” by health watchdog the Care Quality Commission. Inspectors from the watchdog stated that staff went “above and beyond” for patients, even when 28 consultations were taking place at the same...

58.8% of UK graduates are in jobs deemed to be ‘non-graduate’ roles according to a report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). The CIPD has suggested that over-qualification has hit “saturation point”, with the number of graduates now having “significantly outstripped” the creation of high-skilled jobs....