UCL Global

UCL is one of the world's most prestigious, research-led universities.

It operates in a global context and is committed to excellence, innovation, and the promotion of global understanding. The same spirit of radical idealism has been at the heart of UCL since the university was founded in 1826. More ...

UCL's global activities are coordinated by Professor Michael Worton who is UCL's Vice-Provost (International). More ...

Michael oversees a team of five regional Pro-Provosts who are all senior academics drawn from across UCL's multi-faculty disciplines. They advise the university in the development of its strategic global relationships

All are appointed by Professor Malcolm Grant, who is UCL's President & Provost. More ....

UCL's International Strategy

UCL's new International Strategy for the period 2012-17 was approved by Council, the governing body of UCL, on 15 May 2012.

The Strategy will be formally launched and published in the near future. The mission of UCL as London’s Global University, affirmed in the UCL Council White Paper 2011-21, sets the framework for the new International Strategy.

Led by UCL's Vice-Provost (International), Professor Michael Worton, the Strategy for 2012-17 sets out the steps to be taken to strengthen and enhance UCL’s position as an internationally engaged and internationally responsive world-leading global university.

Some facts and figures

• UCL is ranked 7th in the world in the 2011 QS World University Rankings. More ...
• UCL is putting all of its research online - subject to copyright permissions - making it freely available to all. More ...
• UCL has an International Strategy (see the Strategy tab, above)
• UCL will introduce a GCSE foreign language requirement for all undergraduates from 2012. More ...
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UCL Global News

Who stole my milk?: Exploring student homes in London

In the lead up to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, The Geffrye: Museum of the Home and MA students from UCL Institute of Archaeology are investigating shared and private spaces within London’s international student homes.  More...

UCL Engineering Receives Grand Challenges Explorations Funding

UCL Engineering announced today that two members of staff will receive funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables individuals worldwide to test unorthodox ideas that address persistent health and development challenges.

Dr Tarit Mukhopadhyay and Professor Clare Elwell will pursue their innovative global health research projects, titled ‘Elimination of the Cold Chain with Low-Cost Liquid Viral Vaccines’ and ‘Novel Biomarkers of Nutrition Related Cognitive Development’.
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50th Anniversary of the UK's first step into space

The first satellite to carry experiments devised and operated by UK universities including UCL was launched 50 years ago today. More...

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Scholarships at UCL

UCL scholarships recognise exceptional academic achievement, funded not only by the the university itself but also by many organisations and individual benefactors, to benefit both undergraduates and graduate students. Find out more ...