Oriental Museum hosts Indian festival of lights
The celebration of the Indian festival, known as the ‘festival of lights’, will include traditional decorations, arts and crafts, and food.
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Durham ranked 109th in “Hire Education” table of graduate salaries
A higher education survey by The Economist suggests the average Durham graduate’s salary (£32,456) is nearly £2,000 less than they should expect.
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Jump in ‘firsts’ awarded at Durham has been largest of any Russell Group university
An investigation by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) has revealed the number of first-class degrees awarded to Durham students has jumped from 17.8% in 2011 to 30.2% in 2016.
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Durham University Physics department wins prestigious award for supporting women
The Juno Champion Status, awarded to the department last week, was given in recognition of the work done to tackle the lack of high participation of women in physics, having met various principles given.
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New Pro-Vice-Chancellor pledges increase in international students to 35%
The current proportion of the University from overseas is 28.7% for the 2016/17 academic year, with 5,155 of Durham’s 17,927 students hailing from countries other than the UK.
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Abbott’s blunder is proof that she’s human
Errors made by our leaders can be interpreted in two ways: as not being fit for political office, or, that they are human. And humans make mistakes.
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Is the war in Syria the start of World War Three?
Are flexing the muscles of Western interventionism leading us to World War Three?
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General Election 2.0: Palatinate Politics reacts
Probably a landslide, maybe the largest in the last half-century.
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Burning money – is this the face of modern Conservatism?
Two weeks ago, Ronald Coyne from Cambridge University decided to burn cash in front of a homeless man. He thus became the embodiment of Disraeli’s complaint of our society being “two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy.”
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