Cancellation blues
Birmingham University has been accused of neglecting students on a condemned course in order to focus on more academically prestigious areas. The university announced last year that it was scrapping...
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French exchange
University reform was in the spotlight when the president of Universities UK took part in a debate with the French Prime Minister, Francois Fillon. Rick Trainor and other European university leaders...
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Publishing needs
The role of publishers in higher education will be debated at a conference for academics, students, librarians and authors. The Publishers Association conference, co-presented by The Times Higher,...
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Focus on mediation
The UK's first university-based mediation clinic will be launched by Canterbury Christ Church University in January. The clinic, which is backed by Canterbury County Court, has received an £18,000...
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Second thoughts
Leicester University has launched a research project to identify the educational benefits of virtual worlds - in the web-based virtual world Second Life. This week it established an "experimental...
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Zoonosis centre opens
A centre for research into animal-borne diseases that can spread to humans has opened at Liverpool University. The Centre for Zoonosis Research will study diseases such as severe acute respiratory...
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Bath's prized podcasts
Bath University was presented with a European Excellence Award for podcasts of its lectures at a ceremony in Berlin last week. In its entry submission to the awards, which honour corporate...
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Royal red carpet
The Royal College of Music has announced a new collaboration with Princeton University that will allow young musicians from the US to study in London. Under the initiative, Princeton students will...
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Watson joins council
Robert Watson, chief scientific adviser to the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, joined the Council for the Natural Environment Research Council at the beginning of this month....
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Terror policy critiqued
Counter-terrorism efforts in the UK are failing, according to a Birmingham academic. In a new book, The British War on Terror, Steve Hewitt, a lecturer and security specialist at Birmingham...
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Eco fuel finds favour
Public appetite for hydrogen fuels and green initiatives is greater than policymakers assume, researchers have found. A four-year £400,000 study by a Salford University team looked at attitudes to...
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Thumbs up on science
The Home Office and the Ministry of Justice need to shift the balance from short-term science to longer term strategic work that will "minimise the need for 'firefighting' in future", a review...
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So what were the high notes of 2007?
Key figures in higher education provide snapshots of their truly memorable experiences - academic and personal - of the past year. MALCOLM GRANT President, University College London, and chairman of...
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Peep's Diary
Simplicity itself So the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills has released a "simplification plan" setting out what it is doing to "lift the burden" of unnecessary bureaucracy across...
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Self-improvers deserve goodwill from ministers
Few Government plans in any area of policy can have met such a unanimous chorus of disapproval as the scheme to stop funding students taking a second degree at a level they have already attained (...