by Viewpoint | Oct 2, 2019 | Faculty of Humanities
‘Schoolchildren who focus exclusively on arts and humanities-style subjects risk restricting their future career path, the Education Secretary has warned.’ Nicky Morgan “[A] lot of young people no longer see the trades and skilled manufacturing as a viable...
by Viewpoint | Sep 13, 2019 | Faculty of Humanities
Many of us will have been returning to work this week after some kind of summer break. I’ve managed a trip to Wales in between two to Belgium. In the first of these I was at a meeting in Brussels and amongst other things I learned the Wallonian phrase ‘to lie like a...
by Viewpoint | Jul 29, 2019 | Faculty of Humanities, PSLT
Professor Sir Cary Cooper, Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health from Alliance Manchester Business School was recently invited by Dr Julian Skyrme, Director of Social Responsibility, to speak at a Professional Services Leaders’ Conference on the topic ‘Why...
by Viewpoint | Jul 9, 2019 | Faculty of Science and Engineering
On 8 July this year we were in Baku in Azerbaijan to hear UNESCO’s 2019 World Heritage Committee decide to award World Heritage Site status to the University’s Jodrell Bank Observatory. It was a momentous occasion – a great honour for our University and a clear,...
by Viewpoint | Jul 5, 2019 | PSLT, SLT
The results of the National Student Survey have now been released, with our University increasing overall satisfaction from 83% to 84%. This means we have maintained our ranking at 13th in the Russell Group and we are above the overall English sector average. It is...
