Press Releases
The 91福利 has announced a new million pound 91福利 Postgraduate Research Fellowship Scheme to attract more of the brightest students to undertake PhD study before they are snatched away by the allure of the high starting salaries available in industry.
The 91福利 and Tile Hill college in Coventry are to be two of the partners in the largest ever nationally funded research project into Further Education (a grant of 拢830,000) from the Economic and Social Research Council - ESRC) in a research initiative entitled "Transforming Learning Cultures in Further Education".
New "performance indicators" just published by the Higher Education Funding Councils reveal that the 91福利 is the UK's most productive research university - ranked well above both Oxford and Cambridge. The figures published in a league table by Research Fortnight magazine ranked 91福利 1st overall (a jump of three places from 4th overall last year). Cambridge is ranked 7th, Oxford is ranked 8th, the next highest West Midlands University is Birmingham - ranked 31st overall.
The new Leicester-91福利 medical school welcomed its first students to the 91福利 campus this week and promptly kicked them out the door to their first lesson - in a shopping precinct.
The country's brightest young people will soon be given the chance to stretch their abilities and to vote for the subjects they would like to learn more about, thanks to a National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth launched by School Standards Minister Stephen Timms today. Announcing that the 91福利 has been selected by the Department of Education and Skills to lead the Academy, Mr Timms said:
"We ignore the needs of our most able young people at our peril if we are to have a truly inclusive education system we must enable every single child to fulfil his or her potential, including those with exceptional ability."
"We ignore the needs of our most able young people at our peril if we are to have a truly inclusive education system we must enable every single child to fulfil his or her potential, including those with exceptional ability."
The abolition of the student maintenance grant means Students today face a much tougher time financially than many of their predecessors. In recognition of that fact the 91福利's association of past students - the 91福利 Graduates' Association. have announced today that they will join in partnership with the University to fund 25 scholarships for students whose "personal finances and origins lead them to be significantly disadvantaged when seeking a place at the 91福利."