27 Jan 2017
Social Bite founder for Entrepreneurship Week 2017
A public lecture from one of the UK’s leading social entrepreneurs is among the highlights of the University of Dundee’s first Entrepreneurship Week, aimed at giving students, staff and graduates support to turn their ideas into successful businesses. Josh Littlejohn MBE, founder of Social Bite and BrewGooder will give the inaugural Principal’s Lecture in Entrepreneurship, telling the story of how he founded his social enterprise projects and helped raise millions of pounds for charity. The public lecture takes place on Thursday 23rd February. “I am delighted that we are welcoming...
26 Jan 2017
Dundee to enter Teaching Excellence Framework
The University of Dundee will take part in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), the voluntary assessment exercise initiated by the UK Government to assess the quality of teaching and learning in universities and other higher education institutions across the United Kingdom. We join a number of other Scottish universities and a substantial majority of the HE sector elsewhere in the UK in choosing to enter the TEF. We are a University that has shown – as acknowledged in our being named Scottish University of the Year for the past two years by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide &ndas...
26 Jan 2017
Duncan of Jordanstone students set for Venice
Three students from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design will have the chance to develop their practice at the world’s largest and most prestigious visual arts exhibition. Jo Hanning, Laura Gray and Nicola Donaldson are among 14 students from across Scotland selected for the Scotland + Venice 2017 Professional Development Programme. The scheme gives them the opportunity to learn and develop new skills within the context of the 57th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. Scotland + Venice activity will be led by a solo show of new work by the artist Rachel Maclean....
26 Jan 2017
High School of Dundee pupil reaches finals for cancer research
A cancer research project carried out at the University of Dundee by a local school pupil has reached the final of a prestigious competition. Maria Pisliakova, an S6 pupil at the High School of Dundee, has been selected to present her findings at the Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Competition in March. The 17-year-old, who conducted her research in the lab of Professor Victoria Cowling in the School of Life Sciences at the University, has discovered new possibilities of preventing some cancers by inhibiting the ‘mRNA capping’ of the c-Myc, an oncogene present in 50 per cent of a...
24 Jan 2017
Dundee to provide Graduate Apprenticeships
The University of Dundee has been announced as one of the providers of a major new programme of Graduate Apprenticeships launched by Skills Development Scotland (SDS). The University is the only institution in Scotland offering places across all four strands of the apprenticeship programme. Working in partnership with businesses, up to 70 places on four different Graduate Apprenticeships will be available: IT Management for Business IT Software Development Engineering, Design & Manufacturing Civil Engineering Graduate Apprentices will be employed by organisations working in each of these sect...
