Philanthropy also allows talented research professionals to pursue new ideas and transform lives. With your support we are ...

Our founders, James Watt and George Heriot, were pioneers of the highest order in education and philanthropy, and they ...

Today we celebrate philanthropists who have shown similar commitment and foresight to our founding philanthropists, through Giving Circles. These groups enable us to bring our donors closer to the ...

Heriot-Watt University is a product of the Scottish Enlightenment. A pioneer in bringing education to working people in 1821 and founder of a global movement through the creation of the world's first ...

Twenty years before legislation forced Scottish universities to open their doors to women in 1889, Mary Burton (1819–1909), a pioneering campaigner for educational and social reform, led a successful ...

In October 1821 the School held its first lecture at St Cecilia's Concert Hall in Niddry Street, Edinburgh. The subject: chemistry. Over 300 people packed the venue. Several hundred were turned away.

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The ICAS Foundation Programme provides an all-encompassing range of support for students planning to study accounting or finance related subjects at university. The ICAS Foundation Programme provides ...

A new type of porous material that can store carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases has been developed by a team of scientists jointly led by Heriot-Watt University. In a collaboration with the ...

The Integrated Quantum Networks Hub will address the challenges underpinning the establishment of a “quantum internet”, by developing the novel technologies, protocols and industry standards necessary ...

Engineering students from Heriot-Watt University are spearheading calls to reopen a rail route that last served neighbourhoods in the south of Edinburgh over 60 years ago. The six-strong team of civil ...

A groundbreaking new quantum research hub that aims to develop technologies for an ultra-secure 'quantum internet' of the future is being led by Heriot-Watt University. The Integrated Quantum Networks ...