Starting from May 2021, Queen Margaret University’s School of Arts, Social Sciences and Management is offering three credit-bearing short courses to help those seeking to upskill and develop professionally whose work or career plans have been affected by COVID-19.

Thanks to support from the Scottish Government’s National Transitions Training Fund, anyone aged 25 or over who is unemployed, at risk of redundancy, on furlough, or a recent university graduate without graduate level employment is able to undertake these courses for free. 

In 2020, the UK government announced a once-in-a-generation opportunity to boost the UK’s position in research and development. How can universities work with government and business to ensure these ambitions are met? 

The workplace is changing, but universities can bridge skills gaps through innovations in new modes of teaching

The pandemic cultivated greater internal communication and allowed institutions to better respond to student needs

Data-driven approaches will play a crucial role in all aspects of higher education’s digital transformation

PolyU’s space instruments contribute to China’s first lunar sample return mission

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s (PolyU) research excellence contributed to China’s Chang’e 5 mission, which successfully collected lunar samples from the Moon and brought them back to Earth for the first time in the Nation’s history.

Chang’e 5 was not only China’s first undertaking to acquire rocks and soil from the Moon’s surface, but it was also the world's first attempt to do so for more than 40 years since the last lunar mission occurred in 1976.

By offering personalised feedback for students, edtech services such as GoReact are making online education delivery less remote