University of Portsmouth
The University of Portsmouth is a modern university with a strong reputation for quality teaching and sustained, high levels of student satisfaction. Its academics possess notable research strengths and are international experts pushing the boundaries of knowledge in their respective fields.
Over 3,000 staff supports the cohort of nearly 22,000, which includes 3,000 students from over 140 countries.
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Sylvia Pankhurst’s book is the dominant narrative of the time, but was she unfair to her sister Christabel?
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul opened a ‘Sleepcinemahotel’ where audiences let their subconscious minds watch his movies as they fell asleep.
Rodrigo Duterte’s authoritarianism has progressed from death squads and martial law to cracking down on press freedom.
Lepidoptera insects are at least 70m years older than we previously knew.
Prime numbers are a mathematical mystery.
With a hollowed-out agenda and a cynical attitude to corruption, Iran’s reformist forces have squandered their people’s trust.
A new breed of officers hold different views on what it means to be in the police.
A new campaign seeks to support all women affected by sexism, whether famous or not.
Cold water drowning kills many people every year. But can it also provide curative benefits? We asked an expert.
The Victorian idea of Christmas pre-dates Dickens. What the writer did was bring an essentially rural celebration into an urban setting.
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We're pouring cold water on old ideas in this episode: from why the population of Easter Island really declined and what makes a good urban legend.
Parents say they homeschool for a number of reasons including, lifestyle, dissatisfaction or disagreements with local schools, special needs, bullying and religion.
Prescribing a drug for a condition it hasn’t been tested for may sound reckless, but off-label prescribing has a useful function in medicine.
Thanks to the way they are portrayed in films and books, the Knights Templar have become identified with narrow-minded nationalism. This is unjust and inaccurate.
Two tourism experts assess the evidence on whether visitors are drawn to the UK by the monarchy.
A surprising case in Queensland, Australia is changing the way we think about what can be used an official document after your death.
The Campaign Against Killer Robots has launched a terrifying film showing why lethal drones need to be banned.
Just because a group waves the IS flag or claims to be its friend doesn’t mean a global insurgency is underway.
Rowe’s was a particularly harrowing case. But it raises important questions about broader attitudes to the virus.
It wasn’t just ‘mindless’ brutality – but it should remind us that violence too often begets violence.



















