Press releases

A University of Nottingham student-run food surplus supermarket and redistribution network has been stepping up its activity after demand surged in the current lockdown to tackle COVID-19.

Chief Executives, HR, Learning and Development and Talent Management professionals are being brought together by Nottingham University Business School to plot their way forward from the Covid-19 pandemic which is threatening irreversible damage to the UK economy.

The University of Nottingham is launching a programme of free online classes for its local communities in Nottingham and the East Midlands.

A team of students from the University of Nottingham have been crowned national champions of a youth social action and enterprise competition. The budding entrepreneurs, whose projects in Nottingham and Uganda won judges’ votes, will go forward to represent the UK in the world finals in September.

Researchers at the University of Nottingham have highlighted highly variable levels of microplastic pollution in UK rivers.

The University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab has partnered with colleagues in the Home Office’s Modern Slavery Unit to trial a pilot ‘buddying’ scheme, providing policy officials and academics the opportunity to experience and better understand each other’s work.

A new report into the state of mathematics education across England’s Further Education sector, including why fewer than 20% of 16 to 18 year-olds pass their GCSE Mathematics resit, has found that major investment in leadership training and teacher professional development is required to make more significant and sustained improvements.

Ruby and blue sapphire are among the gemstones from Kenya that are popular in jewellery, sold in the UK and across the world but the dangerous conditions in which the miners work to ensure their supply is less well documented. A new exhibition is set to change that.

Professor Roisin P. Corcoran appointed to Government What Works Trial Advice Panel