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The University of York was founded in 1963 with 230 students. It now has around 16,000 students and more than 30 academic departments and research centres.

It is a member of the Russell Group and features regularly in the ranks of the UK’s foremost universities. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, York ranked tenth out of 155 UK universities for the impact of its research.

York was named Times Higher Education University of the Year in 2010 for its drive to combine academic excellence with social inclusion, and its record in scientific discovery and investment in the arts and humanities. The University has won five Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for the quality of its research. The University of York places equal emphasis on research and teaching. Students in every department - both undergraduate and postgraduate - are taught and advised by leaders in their field.

The University’s £750m campus investment represents one of the largest capital developments in UK Higher Education and provides new student accommodation, world-class research and teaching facilities, and embedded and stand-alone facilities for businesses. The University has a collegiate system in which most staff and all students are members of one of nine colleges.

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Nos projections climatiques pour l’an 2500 montrent que la Terre sera inhospitalière pour les humains

Les prévisions relatives au changement climatique prennent souvent l’année 2100 comme point final. Mais il est important d’envisager ce qui se passera au-delà, au moins jusqu’à l’an 2500.
Current climate future predictions do not go far enough. (Shutterstock)

Our climate projections for 2500 show an Earth that is alien to humans

Climate change predictions often use the year 2100 as an end-point. But it’s important to consider what will happen beyond that, at least up to the year 2500.
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New laws in England will leave 16-year-olds living alone

Teenagers transitioning from long-term care to independent adulthood need to be looked after. Their health, wellbeing, education and their safety are at risk
Veillée funéraire en hommage aux victimes de Jake Davidson. Le 13 août 2021 il a assassiné cinq personnes à Plymouth (Royaume-Uni) dont une enfant de trois ans avant de se donner la mort. Niklas HALLE'N / AFP

Plongée dans le monde perverti des Incels, masculinistes frustrés et haineux

La tuerie de Plymouth commise par un homme de 22 ans enquête fait émerger de probables liens avec la communauté masculiniste et misogyne « Incel ».
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Inside the warped world of incel extremists

Jake Davison, the gunman in the UK’s worst mass shooting in a decade, has been linked to the ‘Incel’ movement – but what what do incels really believe?

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