Warwick Business School (WBS) has launched a new range of programmes at WBS London in The Shard. The diploma programmes address challenges faced by senior executives, and aims to deliver “ significant individual and organisational impact, and with the minimum disruption to participants’ working lives.”
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The Independent, The Telegraph, and Business Insider all argue that the most expensive city in the world is either: Singapore, Hong Kong or Zurich. Despite their inability to decide on a clear winner, there is agreement that they are all within the top 5 most costly localities. However, when looking...
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A misdirected email from the University of Oxford’s Medical Sciences Division revealed an examination timetable “for tutors”, which identifies first-year medicine undergraduates that were most likely to fail.
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The Social Mobility Employer Index (SMEI) created by the Social Mobility Foundation found that a growing number of British employers do not consider the alma mater of prospective workers that is listed in their applications.
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At the University of Warwick 2,372 students registered with counselling services in 2016/17 – 61% higher (rising from 1,471 students) than 2010/11 – resulting in either face to face or email counselling, group therapy or workshop sessions, in the 2016/17 academic year. As for Coventry University, 830 students registered with...
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The UK houses 13 of 34 tech unicorns in Europe – private companies valued $1 billion (£745 million) or more. These institutions are referred to as ‘unicorns’ because they rarely emerge into the “ground-breaking” establishments they become. The combined value of the unicorns in Europe is $62 billion, of which...
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The minister said: “There are some vice-chancellors who think that university is about training the mind and all of these things are extra that they don’t have to deal with".
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The Warwick Business School (WBS) full-time MBA has been ranked as the best in the UK and 18th in the world by The Financial Times and The Economist.
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Last Friday, Berlin’s Humboldt University’s supervisory committee voted in favour of establishing an institute for Islamic theology, which critics have condemned for having a conservative Islamic advisory board. The publicly funded institute will be provided with €13 million (£11.5 million) from the city of Berlin to achieve its purpose in...
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According to data from the UCAS admissions service, The Independent found that black students seeking a place at university are 21 times more likely than their white counterparts to have their applications investigated for missing or suspected false information.
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Warwick graduates are ranked 6th in the UK for high earnings five years after graduation, evidenced by the government’s 2018 Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset.
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The Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) released their first social mobility statistics, showing almost two-thirds of lawyers – who attended state schools in the past – were recommended to become judges.
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A study has found that economics or medicine graduates at universities in the UK are most likely to gain the largest financial benefits from their degrees, exceeding private school students or students from wealthy backgrounds.
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