Whilst growing up in a low-income family in Azerbaijan, Aygun Badalova taught herself fluent English to fulfil her life-long dream of studying in England. This year she graduated with an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology. Read her story 👉 bit.ly/2Tjk6uD
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Birkbeck, University of London
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Central London University, part of the University of London, offering courses that fit around you and your busy schedule. ✨
- Birkbeck offers our congratulations to The Rt. Hon. @KemiBadenoch MP on her appointment as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party. Kemi is a Birkbeck alumna (LLB Law) and was elected a Birkbeck Fellow in 2018.
- We can confirm that we are to withdraw from UK university rankings as we believe they do not give an accurate picture of the strengths of the College, but Birkbeck will remain part of the international listings. bit.ly/2OJOKcF
- Birkbeck's Prof Matthew Davies leads new online map project that lets users peel back London’s streets to trace its changes over the past 500 years. 'Layers of London' reveal lost fields, open rivers & debtor prisons in what are now dense urban streets.
- At Birkbeck, we’re proud to offer our students the chance to change their lives through education and make admissions decisions based on students’ future potential, not just their past attainment.Hundreds of students with the worst A levels are going on to get first-class degrees each year, fuelling fears of grade inflation at universities thetimes.co.uk/article/univer…
- Last week, HRH the Princess Royal joined members of the Birkbeck community at Mansion House for our 2023 Foundation Day Dinner.
- Guys. It's happening. Tune in to @BBCTwo tonight at 20:30pm BST to catch us on #UniversityChallenge!! 🎉 We'll be competing against @UniofReading. Let us introduce you to the team that'll be repping BBK 👇😍! #teambbk
- As the only university in London to have secured University of Sanctuary status, Birkbeck is working with a range of partner organisations to do all we can to support Afghan scholars and students trying to continue their education and work. 1/3
- Last week over 200 members of the Birkbeck community gathered at Mansion House to commemorate Birkbeck's 200th anniversary, with speeches from Birkbeck’s Vice-Chancellor and HRH The Princess Royal: bit.ly/3REeSUO#Birkbeck200
- Happy Birthday to Birkbeck's founder, George Birkbeck, who would have been 245 today! Almost 200 years since our founding, we still adhere to the same values that inspired our creation; education is for everyone. ✨
- We're delighted to award author @KitdeWaal with a Fellowship today, in recognition of the support she has given to MA Creative Writing students through the Kit de Waal Scholarship programme 🎓 #BBKGrad00:00
- We're so proud to announce that Professor Sir Roger Penrose OM has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work carried out at Birkbeck in the 1960s, which demonstrated that black holes were an inevitable consequence of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. 😮
- Yesterday, we welcomed the Rt Hon John Bercow to @bbksshp graduation, as he was conferred a fellowship at the College. Here is some of John's advice to students 🎤 What's your fav line from John's wisdom? #johnbercow@HoC_Speaker_MP00:00
- When Birkbeck was founded, artisans and craftspeople could learn about science, art, and economics for the first time: a concept so controversial that George Birkbeck was accused of 'scattering the seeds of evil'.
