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“The most impactful of all initiatives geared towards bolstering Ukraine”: Ukrainian delegates take new education approaches and connections home from Warwick.

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 13:30:00 GMT

Educational leaders in Ukraine, who have been working in bomb shelters and through blackouts, came to the University of Warwick last month to take part in the Leadership for Educational Transformation programme.

UK and Australia sign trade deal – Monash Warwick Alliance set to benefit

Fri, 17 Dec 2021 11:41:16 GMT

The UK has signed an historic trade agreement with Australia, which includes unprecedented opportunities for academic researchers to work between the two countries — which will boost the already successful Alliance between the Universities of Warwick and Monash.

EUTOPIA takes major step towards integration with new mobility agreement

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 16:04:00 GMT

This week, a mobility agreement was signed between EUTOPIA's six founding universities: the University of Warwick, Pompeu Fabra University, CY Cergy Paris University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, University of Gothenburg, and Univerza v Ljubljani.

The University of Babeș-Bolyai in Romania joins EUTOPIA

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:48:00 GMT

The EUTOPIA European University alliance is proud to announce that the enlargement process launched in September will be completed in Barcelona on 23^rd of November, as the University of Babeș-Bolyai in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) joins.

Warwick Translation and Cultures MA showcased by British Council in Hong Kong

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 09:54:00 GMT

How does a book or a map change when it is translated to another language, for people in a different culture? Is it essentially the same as the original, or something new altogether? Find out at an online event from the University of Warwick, City University of Hong Kong, and the British Council.

European universities reimagine education in the digital, post-pandemic age

Fri, 04 Jun 2021 07:50:44 GMT

Higher education across Europe needs to cut red tape, revolutionise lifelong learning, standardise digital platforms, and immerse students in research as well as employability skills from day one, according to new recommendations proposed by Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities.

UK students and French senior citizens beat loneliness in lockdown together

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:41:28 GMT

Students at the UK’s University of Warwick are spending their lockdown chatting online with elderly people in France, bridging intergenerational and international divides in a time marked by isolation.

Online toolkit created to support grassroots volunteering

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 13:25:10 GMT

An easy to use online toolkit has been launched by a researcher from the University of Warwick to help anyone motivated to volunteer in the Global South to turn their ambitions into practical action.

New book explores how people build good relationships across cultural boundaries

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 10:52:45 GMT

In a new book launched this week, Professor Helen Spencer-Oatey of the University of Warwick Centre for Applied Linguistics and her co-author Professor Dániel Z. Kádár of the Hungarian Research Institute for Linguistics (NYTI) explore how people relate across cultural boundaries, a topic which is increasingly important in our interconnected world.

£1.3m doctoral scholarships in Global Sustainable Development for UK & EU students

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:05:00 GMT

The next generation of global sustainable development researchers is set to emerge thanks to a new kind of ‘transdisciplinary’ PhD programme at the University of Warwick for UK and EU students — made possible by £1,350,000 from the Leverhulme Trust.