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Why colleges are updating historic buildings to suit the modern student

University Business

When you have alumni come back, they see a tremendous number of similarities of what they remember, but then you also have new students who come in and see bigger, brighter open spaces, media rooms and coffee shops,” said Peele. They also need to implement life security systems, such as sprinklers.

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Mini-series: Balance for better – Diversifying Wikipedia

Teaching Matters Online Learning

We also work with student societies (Law & Technology, History, Translation, Women in STEM, Wellcomm Kings), and have held events for Ada Lovelace Day, LGBT History Month, Black History Month, and celebrated Edinburgh’s Global Alumni; working with the UncoverEd project , and the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission.

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