Critical voices condemn Glasgow language plans
Plans to cut foreign language provision at the University of Glasgow have attracted a flood of protest from as far afield as Turkey, Sweden, the Czech Republic and the US.As Times Higher Education...
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Blogconfidential: Blag on?
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Blag on?
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Appointments
University of NorthamptonJackie CampbellThe phrase "no pain, no gain" could have been invented for Jackie Campbell, professor of neurophysiology at the University of Northampton. Professor Campbell...
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Top nations in agricultural sciences
Top nations in agricultural sciencesData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 2000–31 October 2010 CountryPapers CitationsCitations per paper1...
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News in Brief
SpainNon-residents need not applyForeign students will not be allowed to apply to Spain's two main doctoral fellowship programmes unless they can prove they are residents of the country. Under new...
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Nostos address: Greece's reformers call students home
Minister appeals for Greeks studying overseas to return to revamped academy. Hannah Fearn writes
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Grant Winners
THE LEVERHULME TRUST• Award winner: James Spencer• Institution: University of Bristol• Value: £47,911Cfr, a radical SAM enzyme catalysing rRNA methylation at unreactive centres• Award winner: Martin...
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The end is not nigh
Those in the humanities and social sciences must be less paranoid and more precise in identifying threats, argues Adam Roberts
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£6K must be ceiling, survey told Browne
But parent and student opinion did not make it into final report, FoI reveals. John Morgan writes
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Willetts set to widen pool of degree-awarding bodies
Government plans to open up degree-awarding powers to organisations that do not teach have been described as "revolutionary".
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Cushioning the impact (slightly)
Mixed response from sector as 20 per cent figure for first REF is announced. Paul Jump reports
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Reforms may turn scholars into academic 'lap dancers'
Funding cuts blamed for endangering democratic freedom of the humanities. Matthew Reisz reports
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Bumper crop of fellowships in time of famine
The University of Oxford's humanities division is offering eight postdoctoral fellowships in an effort to shield early-career researchers from excessive teaching loads and support them through "the...
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‘App generation’ offered access to key student data
Southampton site to reveal comprehensive figures on courses and campus. Rebecca Attwood reports
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'Suspect' Offa letter threatens sector's freedom
Two experts on higher education law have warned that ministers' latest guidance to the access watchdog treads dangerously closely to interfering in a key area of academic freedom.