For the first time in 25 years of continuous occupation, Nasa will be partially evacuating the International Space Station (ISS) due to a crew medical incident. The agency announced on Wednesday that ...

Durham University and College Union (DUCU) announce a ballot on strike and action short of a strike during Epiphany term.

As part of the Fair Funding Review 2.0, Sir Keir Starmer’s government has announced an injection of £170 million into Durham County Council (DCC). The Labour Party claim that this is a “tenfold ...

Palatinate news team. Compiling this chronological, themed, guide was a much bigger task than this News Editor anticipated; however, it was hopefully worth the News Year’s Eve sacrifice. Parts one, ...

New statistics show that Durham University admitted the lowest proportion of state-educated students in the 2020/21 academic year, compared to any other UK university. Just 61.6% of the new cohort, ...

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Students sitting exams in Maiden Castle have complained of distracting levels of noise from ongoing building work. Palatinate has been approached by students that sat exams last week, who complained ...

Palatinate has once again revealed college popularity rankings. Due to changes to the University’s allocation process, applicants now rank their top three preferences instead of ranking all the ...

‘Oxbridge reject’ is one of Durham’s most recurrent stereotypes. Due to Durham’s relatively high rankings in the UK university league tables, coupled with its college system and traditional quirks ...

Durham University has moved up 22 spots in the annual LSBU English Social Mobility Index to claim 52 nd place in the 2024 rankings. The index, which considers access (the proportion of disadvantaged ...

Last week, a Castle-based ‘Secret Society’ came to the shocking realisation that literally everybody at Durham University is aware of its existence. The University College “Six-Nines”, established in ...

Last month Durham University established the Centre for Classics Education Research and Engagements (CERES), which is researching the learning and teaching of classical languages and ancient ...