University of Portsmouth of Portsmouth won a £272,000 award from the Education and Training Foundation to research how best to deliver study programmes in the UK. In 2016, Dr Victoria Wang and Professor Mark Button, of the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, were awarded £299,355 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to investigate unintended consequences of data release, including those associated with issues of trust, identity, privacy and security. The project is in partnership with Swansea University's Department of Computer Science, the DVLA and other government agencies. The University of Portsmouth is one of only four universities in the south east
Third-oldest university in England debate fourth oldest university institution". The debate also spilled over into Scotland in 2007, when The Guardian mistakenly called Durham the "third oldest university in the UK" (rather than in England). In 2016, "Durham Magazine" published an article on the debate, concluding that "Despite all the above arguments, most people consider Durham to be England’s third oldest university". "The Telegraph" noted the debate in 2018, saying "Durham University claims to be the third oldest university in England (a title also claimed by University College London)". Judging a university's "foundation" as occurring at the earliest point to which teaching can be traced,