Student Life

New research released today by the new car buying and selling website Carfused.com reveals just how dirty the nation’s cars really are. With the help of cleaning expert Kim Woodburn – from Channel 4’s How Clean is Your House? – Carfused.com swabbed 15 car interiors and sent the tests to The University of Nottingham’s Microbiology Investigation Centre for analysis with some shocking results.

Amid the shards of fingernails, pet hairs and crisp packets, the cars of students, parents, office workers and van drivers were all found to be contaminated by an array of microorganisms. This...

Researchers studying wild banded mongooses in Uganda have discovered that these small mammals have either cooperative or selfish personalities which last for their entire lifetime. The findings of the 15-year study are published today in the journal Animal Behaviour.

The researchers investigated the selfish behaviour of mongoose mate-guarding – where dominant males guard particular females – and the cooperative behaviour of ‘babysitting’ and ‘escorting’ the young.

They found that cooperative mongooses that helped out with offspring care did so consistently over their whole...

A group of high achieving sixth form students from Devon, Cornwall and Somerset, have graduated from a national project which aims to raise aspirations and the confidence of young people to pursue a career in law.

Twenty six students from the region participated in the University of Exeter strand of the Pathways to Law programme. They received a certificate of achievement on Wednesday 1 July at a celebratory event to herald their success in completing the programme. All of these exceptionally bright students are from state schools or colleges and most will be the first generation...

A Lord, a Nobel Prize winner, a BAFTA winning playwright and a European athletics gold medallist will be amongst those honoured at the University of Exeter’s summer graduation this year.

In total, 15 special guests will receive an Honorary Degree and the CSM Trust will be inducted into the College of Benefactors as part of the celebrations at the Streatham campus in Exeter and in Truro Cathedral for the Penryn Campus in Cornwall.

The Rt Hon Lord Adonis and the Rt Hon Sir John Goldring will be taking to the stage in the Great Hall at the Streatham Campus on Monday 13 July,...