Universities Week

What is Universities Week?

Universities Week is aimed to highlight the vital role universities play in the UK. This year is will take place from 13 - 19 June, and has the theme 'What's the Big Idea?'.

The initiative is supported by over 100 universities and organisations.  It aims to highlight how universities benefit everyone, whether or not they have gone to university themselves. It will see higher education institutions around the country take part in a variety of local, regional and national activities designed to demonstrate the extraordinary, life-changing work of universities.

This year Universities Week 2011 will focus on five key themes including the value universities bring to their communities, the value they bring to local businesses and how the research currently underway will benefit UK society in 20 years’ time.

The University of Bradford is proud to support Universities Week, and we will add stories here on this site throughout the week, which will highlight the great work of the University. 

Message from Imran Khan, Chancellor of the University of Bradford, in support of Universities Week

Imran Khan is in no doubt that it is his experience in Higher Education, and not simply his physical prowess on the cricket pitch, that he has to thank for his phenomenal success as a sportsman.

He is now the Chancellor of the University of Bradford, a role in which he hopes to impress upon students the importance of learning more than simply academic subjects during their time at University.

'I found that as a cricketer one of the great things that university education gave me was the capability of analysing where I made mistakes, and that is the first step to improving yourself. Education provides you with knowledge, about history and great people, giving you role models and broadening your horizons and this opens up the world. When your world becomes bigger it allows you to have bigger dreams and this can be life-changing.'