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School-based healthy lifestyle interventions alone are not effective in the fight against childhood obesity, according to research conducted in the West Midlands. The warning comes after one of the largest childhood obesity prevention trials undertaken to date has found that a healthy lifestyle intervention carried out in dozens of schools did not lead to significant changes in pupils’ weight.

New research from the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ shows that using the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) approach to studying Shakespeare can significantly improve student language acquisition and skills – with some schools reporting better SATS and GCSE English scores as a result.

WMG at the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ will be lending a hand to budding young engineers from The Richard Crosse C of E Primary School in Kings Bromley, Staffordshire, in their quest to build and race their very own electric kit car.

The University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ has published the third in a series of briefings exploring the implications of Brexit for the job market, workers’ rights, and employment policy. Skills training for vulnerable workers: effects of the loss of EU funding after Brexit outlines how current skills training in the UK is supported by EU funding, and recommends key priorities for a post-Brexit UK-funded skills programme. The paper is the third of four ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Brexit Briefings on Employment by the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ and its Connecting Research on Employment and Work (CREW) network.

The University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ is hosting a photography exhibition which challenges preconceptions of Down Syndrome.

Kids and grown-ups from 5 to 105 are invited to discover the science behind Christmas with FREE, fun family activities this weekend at Fargo Village in Coventry – hosted by the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ and the Royal Society of Chemistry.