School of Music to close, UEA council announces
The University of East Anglia is to close its School of Music.
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Latest Ucas figures show 15.1 per cent fall in UK applications
The number of UK students who have applied to university for 2012, when they will be charged fees of up to £9,000, has fallen by 15.1 per cent on the same point last year.
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Scotland boosts support for postgraduates
The Scottish government has pledged loans to support an extra 2,300 postgraduate students, bringing the total supported places up to 4,000.
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Visa crackdown bolsters case for overseas campuses, 1994 Group says
Research-intensive universities in the UK should be considering setting up more campuses overseas to counter the threat of falling international student numbers at home, a mission group has said.
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RCUK launches new system for logging research ‘impact’
A new web system has been launched which aims to make it easier for academics to detail the impact of their work.
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Unease remains over EPSRC’s ‘shaping capability’ deadline
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has been warned that the deadline set for final decisions on its controversial “shaping capabilities†programme may be too tight to allow the...
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Sheffield named ‘University of the Year’ at annual THE Awards
The University of Sheffield has scooped the top prize of University of the Year at this year’s Times Higher Education Awards.Announced as the winner at a ceremony at the Grosvenor House hotel in Park...
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Queen’s Anniversary prizes awarded to 18 universities
Research into eye disease, a ground-breaking creative writing course and work to improve food security has helped 18 universities to win Queen’s Anniversary prizes for higher and further education.
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THE Awards 2011: winners announced
This year’s Times Higher Education Awards see the university’s three core missions of research, teaching and engagement represented in an array of innovation and inspiration. Among the research...
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American unveiled as new head of LSE
A US sociologist has been named as the new director of the London School of Economics.
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News in brief
United StatesWho left the dogs out?A university in the US is facing a multi-million-dollar bill for cleaning up the remains of nuclear experiments carried out more than five decades ago. The...
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Cable castigates 'clawback' option
Franchised places must not be reclaimed from FE colleges, minister warns. David Matthews writes
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News in brief
Chemistry provisionDust off the Bunsen burnersA new department of chemistry is to be established at Lancaster University, more than a decade after it ceased to teach the subject. Lancaster is seeking...
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Is a whiter-than-white academy blind to the racial inequality in its midst?
Sector doesn't prioritise issue and ignores 'adverse outcomes', scholar argues. Matthew Reisz writes
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For-profit? Charity? In the market, they'll act the same
Competition for 'share' will dissolve institutional difference, Deloitte claims. David Matthews writes