The Olympic effect: What has UEL gained from involvement in the Olympic and Paralympic Games?

London 2012 has been an exciting time for UEL. Over the past few weeks, we’ve had a large number of guests and high profile visitors on campus and a range of exciting events and activities taking place in SportsDock. But what can we say that UEL has gained from involvement in the Olympic and Paralympic Games?

First Week is nearly here...

New students from overseas will start arriving at the University today, ahead of the arrival of our new intake during First Week, which will begin in earnest on Monday. Throughout next week our new students will be attending their induction and enrollment sessions, alongside the wide range of events on offer at Docklands and Stratford. Visit uel.ac.uk/firstweekforstaff for full details...

New e-resources launched to assist students' studies

Two new e-resources have been launched to help our students with academic essay writing and the development of skills....

Professional Standards Framework reaccredited by Higher Education Academy

UEL can continue to award Associate and Fellow of the HEA and can now also award Senior and Principal Fellow...

Learn a language for free with UEL's Language Centre - The Language Centre are offering free classes for Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Mandarin, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish...

Welcome Programme for international students - UEL International will soon be welcoming over 300 new international students, including Erasmus and Study Abroad students...

ADI Masters students showcase their best work - UEL masters students in Fashion, Graphic Design and Fine Art will showcase their final pieces in a show from 13 September on Docklands Campus...

International UEL conference tackles the legacy question - Academics and practitioners from across the world will be coming to the ATLAS Conference, hosted by the Royal Docks Business School...

UEL shortlisted for Times Higher Education Award - UEL’s Beetle Bump has been shortlisted for a 2012 Times Education Higher Education Award...

The Sustainability Exchange is live! - The Sustainability Exchange shares best practice, knowledge and resources on sustainability...

Stratford Bees make sweet honey - The Environment Team sampled honey last week produced at Stratford Campus...

Forthcoming call: energy-efficient computing - This collaborative demonstrator competition focuses on the design and development of energy-efficient hardware and software, not only for large-scale systems relying on computing capacity but also for mobile devices....

UEL Research Funding Blog - For all current external funding opportunities and research funding stories visit uelresearch.wordpress.com

First Week events calendar - Beginning on Monday 17 September, First Week will feature a wide vairety of campus events which are free and open to all UEL students. Find the full events calendar at uel.ac.uk/firstweekevents

Q&A with West Indies cricket great Michael Holding - On Wednesday 19 September at SportsDock, former cricketer Michael Holding will be answering your questions...

Free classes at SportsDock - From 17 September SportsDock will be offering one week of free exercise classes...

Interested in getting back to netball? - Come to our staff training sessions held on Monday lunchtimes..