Schools are often where children’s and adolescents’ mental health problems are identified. While there is ever growing demand for mental health support for pupils, such […]
Ticket to Success
Need help with your career?
Anyone can find themselves needing careers advice, but for recent graduates it’s often difficult to know where to turn. The good news for University of […]
So you want to be a mentor?
Find out how you can get involved
Mentoring plays a crucial role in preparing students for that vital next step. Whether it’s helping them to explore career options, or to research a […]
Removing all barriers
Some of our young people face difficult barriers when entering higher education
The late Peter Whelpton (Economics, 1969) had a vision to transform the lives of young people living with some of the most extreme hardships. He […]
Yucall. How do the students benefit?
Tierney explains how Yucall helped her through university
I joined York as an English Literature student who had absolutely no clue what career I wanted to do after university. I joined lots of […]
Goodricke’s Golden Jubilee
2018 sees York’s fifth college turn fifty, but what do you remember about Goodricke College?
Goodricke College is named after amateur astronomer John Goodricke (1764-1786), who is best known for presenting conclusive proof that the brightness of stars varies over a period of time in a cyclical nature.
Theatre Review: Check, Please
Nouse review of Drama Barn production
The Drama Barn is back for summer term and heading to the Edinburgh Fringe with two original plays.
Neuroscience is unlocking mysteries of the teenage brain
Is there truth to the cliches?
How would you describe an average teenager? Lucy Foulkes, a Lecturer of Psychology in Education at York, suggests that for most people, the following characteristics […]
Swinging Sixties (Part II)
We return to our series looking at the birth of student politics and radicalism at York
In 1967 York’s then Vice- Chancellor, Lord James, was still hugely weary of increased student participation.
Pepys Show: an interview with Benjamin Till
What happens when you set one of our greatest diarists to music?
Samuel Pepys is synonymous with the diary that he kept for some nine and a half years, beginning on 1st January 1660 until he ceased writing nearly a decade later.
Returning to education
Helen Barnes tells her story of how she moved from banking to her own business by going back to university
I was 28 but had nowhere to go with my career, my salary was unlikely to increase to any significant extent as the years passed and the scope of my job unlikely to grow very much.
Defending the world
The Evan Cornish Foundation has pledged a grant to the Centre for Applied Human Rights’ Protective Fellowship Scheme
It’s now been nearly ten years since the University launched the Centre for Applied Human Rights Protective Fellowship Scheme for Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) at Risk.
