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Durham University

September 2024

  • A teacher teaches a schoolgirl the alphabet

    ‘Incredibly disheartening’ decline in special needs pupil attainment in England

    Pupils with Send slipping further behind peers in reading, writing and maths despite teaching and legislation gains
  • Three schoolboys wearing tailcoats

    Leading universities urged to take no more than 10% of students from private schools

    Expanding access to Oxbridge and other leading institutions would boost social mobility, say authors of new book
  • Summer Graduation Award Ceremonies for the 2020 and 2021 cohorts.

    University Guide 2025
    How can you make going to university worth it? We ask the experts

    Where to study is just as important as what – especially when it comes to finding a job

July 2024

  • Framwellgate Bridge over the River Wear in Durham.

    Durham may have culture, but it also has rising poverty and inequality

  • Autumn colours at Durham Cathedral.

    Durham in decline? Take another look, Benjamin Myers

  • Durham Castle overlooking the River Wear

    For better and worse, Durham’s student population has an impact on locals

  • Josephine Butler

    How Josephine Butler is remembered across the country

January 2024

  • Richard Muir

    Other lives
    Richard Muir obituary

    Other lives: Diplomat who did much to nurture friendly relations between Britain and Oman

August 2023

  • Back view of children, with a black girl in the centre, raising their hands to answer a teacher's question.

    Lack of diversity in teaching in England means minority ethnic pupils miss out

    Exclusive: Pupils in north-east and London most likely to never have a teacher of similar ethnicity, study finds

July 2023

  • Olivia Burt.

    UK’s largest pub firm guilty of health and safety breach over student’s death

    Stonegate Pub Company faces fine after heavy decorative screen fell on Olivia Burt, 20, in Durham

June 2023

  • Graduands entering Durham Cathedral for a degree ceremony.

    Marking boycott may delay degrees of more than 1,000 Durham students

  • Osman Durrani

    Other lives
    Osman Durrani obituary

  • Isabelle Murray, with shoulder-length hair, leans against a concrete wall, hands folded, in front of the University of Edinburgh’s McEwan Hall

    ‘I haven’t had a single normal year at university’: the UK students graduating without a graded degree

  • Janet Townsend

    Other lives
    Janet Townsend obituary

May 2023

  • Dame Rosemary Cramp at Monkwearmouth in Sunderland, in 1961. Cramp was inspired to become an archaeologist at age 12 when her sister discovered ‘some nice things for the floor of the little house which we were building’. ‘She had found the pilae tiles of a Roman building,’ Cramp recalled. ‘At least I thought it ought to be Roman. I only had a children’s encyclopaedia’© Department of Archaeology, Durham University

    Dame Rosemary Cramp obituary

  • John Walker

    Other lives
    John Walker obituary

  • Scientists examining the children's bones.

    Harrowing lives of children sent to work in English mills revealed in first study of kind

  • Terry Millward

    Other lives
    Terry Millward obituary

March 2023

  • An artist’s impression of a black hole in the Milky Way galaxy

    Ultramassive black hole discovered by UK astronomers

    Durham University scientists say black hole about 30 billion times the mass of the Sun is first to be found with gravitational lensing

January 2023

  • Quadrangle in Durham Castle (University College, Durham), Durham, County Durham, North East England, UK<br>C5BE54 Quadrangle in Durham Castle (University College, Durham), Durham, County Durham, North East England, UK

    ‘Huge win’ for trade union as Durham University raises PhD students’ pay

    University had paid some postgraduate researchers ‘less than minimum wage’
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