News in 2026
Before leaving your offices for the Easter break, please remember to switch off lights, turn off equipment, and close windows to help us meet our energy and cost-saving targets.
Following a successful extended-hours trial, we are introducing a permanent IT drop-in schedule aligned with peak demand, effective 9 March.
We'll be celebrating Neurodiversity Celebration Week from Monday 16 to Sunday 22 March.
The University has been named as one of the best places to work in the UK in the Financial Times Best Employers ranking.
Whether you walk, cycle, use public transport or drive, we want to know how you travel.
Support and advice for anyone impacted by the recent events in the Middle East.
We're refreshing our current Strategy to guide us until 2035 and beyond.
Celebrate International Women's Day on Sunday 8 March with events on campus and elsewhere in York.
We are introducing changes to our semester structure from 2026/27 to address concerns regarding staff pressure, student engagement and administrative workload.
Look out for a convincing new phishing campaign targeting Google Workspace users - and warn your friends and colleagues too.
Since launching our Quiet Spaces webpages in October last year, we have been working to make the experience even easier.
Thank you for supporting the winter switch-off 2025.
On Wednesday 4 March, we’re inviting staff - especially professional services staff - to join us to mark International Women’s Day with colleagues from across the University.
Campus Safety will be hosting a free BikeRegister drop-in on Friday 13 February, 10am to 3pm, on the patio area between the Students’ Union and James Hall (Campus West), in partnership with North Yorkshire Police and York Cycle Campaign.
This year, National Apprenticeship Week runs from Monday 9 to Sunday 15 February with the theme 'Skills for Life'. We’re pleased to take this opportunity to celebrate our apprenticeship programmes, and the many success stories they create.
Race Equality Week (Monday 2 to Sunday 8 February) is a UK-wide initiative aimed at uniting organisations and individuals in addressing barriers to race equality in the workplace.
Every February, LGBTQ+ History Month aims to increase the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and raise awareness of the community's history, lives and experiences in education, culture, and society.
Although we work hard to minimise interruptions to IT across the University, sometimes our key services do experience disruptions.
Join us to Light Up the Night with a candlelit walk around campus to mark Sexual Violence Awareness Week 2026.