£37.8m UK Government Local Growth Fund provides Green Light for Major New Housing and Green Skills Hubs

Additionally, the funds will drive regional employability and business growth initiatives, while financing transport planning and research into the impact of AI. The UK Government has now released £14.09m to Edinburgh…

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Microplastics in soil pose global threat by acting like ‘Trojan horse’ to deliver toxins

The EU-funded project, which has so far resulted in 22 peer-reviewed studies , found microplastics in the soil of all 227 agricultural fields it tested across 11 European countries. The researchers said this poses a…

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From North Wales to Vietnam and the NHS – former student sets sights on oncology

Her degree included a medical elective in Vietnam, where she gained hands-on experience within an unfamiliar healthcare system and used the placement as a springboard to travel more widely across South East Asia – an…

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Indeed Reveals the UK’s Biggest Job Hotspots

Analysis of UK job postings on Indeed between January and July 2026 reveals London remains the country’s biggest hiring centre by a considerable margin, accounting for 13.1% of all UK job postings . Manchester ranks…

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Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says

The electronic trash AI generates in the next 25 years could fill enough shipping containers to encircle the globe six times, it said. Yet, says the report by the non-profit environmental group Basel Action Network…

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University of Salford launches consultation on plans for new Business School

Taking place on Wednesday 23 September between 3-7pm in the reception of the University’s Maxwell building, the event provides an opportunity for students, colleagues and the wider Salford community to view the plans…

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Barking & Dagenham College celebrates 100% T Level pass rate

Equivalent to three A Levels, they combine classroom learning with substantial experience in the workplace and provide an alternative to A Levels, other post-16 courses and apprenticeships. Students spend approximately…

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‘It sits at the meeting point of science and the humanities’: should you study psychology?

After navigating a competitive graduate jobs market this year, she secured a sales role with a FTSE 100 company starting in September. "My degree involved a lot of data analysis, which has been really useful in job…

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Students in Gaza ‘devastated’ after plan for them to study in Belgium fails

Abujami has a scholarship to do a one-year master's degree in public health at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp. He hopes to gain skills and experience to rebuild Gaza's shattered health system . "I was…

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Letby doctor says inquiry 'grim reading' and he wishes 'we had been brave enough to follow suspicions'

Consultant paediatrician Dr John Gibbs worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital throughout the period in 2015 to 2016 when Letby murdered seven babies, and attempted to murder seven more, on the neonatal unit. He said…

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