New findings published by the British Library reveal that a two-year initiative to run business support services in libraries has attracted more than double the national average of women to start up their own businesses, and triple the number of entrepreneurs from black and Asian minority ethnic backgrounds.

Knowledge Quarter partners The Creative Industries Federation is looking for their members to act as case studies for a paper on diversity and access (primarily BAME, gender and socioeconomic), to be released this autumn.

In 2016 Senate House North Block will open, creating a single unified campus for SOAS, University of London. As they extend into one of London’s iconic sites, SOAS will be celebrating the start of their second century in a campus fit for a prestigious university of the 21st Century.