News archive

June 2008

Exeter climbs higher

Exeter has risen to 13th place in the UK in the Times league table of universities.

Islamic Law under the microscope

A network of British researchers and practitioners of Islamic Law are meeting at the University to share insights of their day to day experience of Islamic law in the first of a series of six workshops funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council’s Religion and Society Project.

Over 40 years of volunteering in Exeter

The University celebrates over 40 years of student voluntary work through student led Community Action programmes in Exeter.

South West hill farming under threat

The fragile economic viability of hill farming in the south west of England, already threatened by years of poor returns, may be made worse by the unintended consequences of the new Single Payment Scheme (SPS), a new study has found.