News, information and events for your Manchester student life
Imagine this: you’re in a PC cluster, ready to dive into your coursework, and every app you need is right there – fast, free, and ready to launch. That’s the power of AppsAnywhere, and this year, it’s better than ever.
A lot has been happening on campus – from your new learning environment, revamped facilities in Main Library and you new Students’ Union exec – catch up with all that’s new.
We’re looking for creative students to join our Student Content Creator team! Are you interested in sharing your life as a student by producing social and written content for University channels? If so, this could be the opportunity for you!
The Cultural Welcome is back for its second year: a week-long festival designed to connect you with the incredible theatres, galleries, music venues, and cultural spaces right on your doorstep.
Canvas is now live, replacing Blackboard as the place you’ll find your course materials, submit work, and connect with your studies online – anytime and anywhere.
Applications are now open for the 100 Black Women Professors Now programme, offering coaching, mentoring, and leadership development to support Black women’s academic progression and drive genuine cultural change in universities.
Essential work is scheduled to take place at 8am to Midday Saturday, 6 September. It is not anticipated that students will experience disruption during this time, but should be aware that this will be an “at risk” period.
An update on IT services and how to check the latest status of systems.
The Campus Solutions Student System will be unavailable for five hours from 1pm to 6pm on Friday, 8 August 2025, so make sure you’ve selected your course units before then – or you can log back on afterwards to continue.
Our new Policy on Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom, and updated Code of Practice, will come into effect from 1 August 2025. Find out more.
Our latest NSS results, which are the views of our final year undergraduates, were released yesterday (9 July). We are pleased to see an upward trajectory across all areas – indeed, a 5% increase in positivity overall which is the biggest rise across Russell Group institutions.
IT Services need to perform maintenance work on Wednesday 2 July and Thursday 3 July 2025, resulting in a short disruption to network connectivity at some point between 6.30pm and 9pm on both evenings.
The University of Manchester has retained its position among the world’s leading universities, according to new rankings announced on Thursday 19 June.
Understanding our new position on employee-student relationships, including which relationships are now prohibited and what is expected of employees.
The University has been ranked in first place in the UK and Europe and second in the world for benefitting society and the environment by Times Higher Education for the third year running.