University of York Blogs

York is a thoroughly unique and distinctive City, but it shares its name with a huge number of places around the world. Wikipedia tells me there is a York in Sierra Leone, Greenland and Australia, and there are […]

Sponsored by the British Council, I visited China for a week in April as a guest of the Ruan Yisan Heritage Foundation, a non-governmental, non-profit organisation to support and promote urban heritage […]

The University of Delhi is a very large institution by anyone’s standards with approximately 150,000 students (not counting those enrolled on the distance learning schemes). Like all university campuses, it’s a […]

The proceedings from the final REMEDiE conference, 18-19 April 2011, hosted by our REMEDiE partners at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain, are available on the REMEDiE website

A group of students in York have been working with Juba University, South Sudan, since 2011 to put together a creative writing anthology – to be published this Easter - with contributions by students from both […]

I was a blogger once.

It seems a long time ago now, but I started blogging back in 1999 back when it seemed that there only were a few other blogs, including Bifurcated Rivets and Robot Wisdom.

I started a […]

Hello, I’m Tom Smith, and this post is to tell you what this blog and The Collaborative Tools Project is about.

The Collaborative Tools Project was began to help improve collaboration at the University of […]

My name is Yumino Kira, a York Masters graduate. I have been working in the International Relations Office for a couple of months and have had a fascinating experience. All the staff in the International Relations Office were friendly and professional. I learnt that they have a very diverse role regarding international activities at the [...]

Lyse Doucet, the acclaimed BBC presenter and correspondent, was awarded an honorary degree by the University of York on 21 January 2012.  Well-known for her in-depth reporting and strong insights in the Middle East and South Asian regions, she is also a Member of the International Council on Human Rights Policy.  After receiving the honorary…[Read more]

It has been a busy year for York’s Study Abroad Office. We have launched our Global York brand for the range of international opportunities open to York students, moved into our new headquarters in Derwent College, and have developed new agreements for student exchange with Rhodes University in South Africa, Seoul National University in South [...]

It only seems a short time ago when students were arriving for the new autumn term, and already the Christmas vacation is almost here. While many students take advantage of the break to go and see family and friends, plenty of students stay on campus or in York. There are usually around 500 international students [...]

From coordinating trips to Newcastle, to organizing Karaoke nights, the GSA is very keen to involve international students in the York experience from the get-go. As GSA President, I really enjoy meeting incoming students and this year’s Postgraduate Welcome and International Week were perfect opportunities to brush up on my language skills and to…[Read more]

The energy and ideas of partners in India inspired the York staff who visited last week.  Our plans for collaboration now range from joint seminars in bioengineering with IIT Delhi to a workshop on post-colonial scholarship in Britain and India with Delhi University.  Having a delegation of academics from widely different areas led to an interesting [...]

Last week we had the pleasure of receiving a visit by Dr Doug Owram, Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Principal of the UBC Okanagan campus. UBC has more than 40,000 students, 9,000 faculty and staff, and places 22nd in the THE world rankings. Okanagan is their relatively new research-intensive campus [...]

Last month I attended a signing ceremony to launch a three year, £198,000 funding agreement between Santander and the University of York. The agreement was signed by our Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Cantor and the Chairman of Santander UK Lord Terry Burns. This signing ceremony was the easy part. We are now working out how exactly [...]

I have been sporting a small panda brooch on my lapel for the last week – a gift from Dr Zhou Xuedong, Dean of the Dental School at Sichuan University in  Chengdu.  She is leading a 26-strong delegation of university leaders from China, who are in the UK for a leadership study tour.  They spent [...]

I have been sporting a small panda brooch on my lapel for the last week – a gift from Dr Zhou Xuedong, Dean of the Dental School at Sichuan University in  Chengdu.  She is leading a 26-strong delegation of university leaders from China, who are in the UK for a leadership study tour.  They spent [...]

Welcome to my first blog! I’m Harriet Cross, International Relations Officer and Worldwide Universities Network Coordinator.  I’ve attended a couple of environment-related workshops in the last month so that’s what I’m going to focus on today. One of the advantages of inter-disciplinary and multinational research is its ability to have an impact…[Read more]

Welcome to York’s international relations blog.  We’ll be bringing you some of the highlights and interesting moments of our visits to partners all over the world, shining a light on some of our incoming delegations, and discussing the issues that challenge us in the world of international higher education. This week, our Study Abroad team [...]