School of Music to close, UEA council announces
The University of East Anglia is to close its School of Music.
Search
-
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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...
-
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...
-
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.
-
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...
-
American unveiled as new head of LSE
A US sociologist has been named as the new director of the London School of Economics.
-
Write-offs? We'll show you something to make you change your mind
Think you can tell which students are destined to be heroes or zeroes? Think again: as Geoffrey K. Pullum shows, his career and that of an old school chum demonstrate that potential can be difficult...
-
Ready, got set, go
From mindless diversions to gripping, critically acclaimed dramas, what is it about box sets of television series that appeals to academics, asks Roger Luckhurst. Obviously, first-hand investigation...
-
What have they ever done for us?
That sentiment may be shared by many in the communities in which universities are located. But if the institutions disappeared, how much of a loss would it be to those cities? David Matthews weighs...
-
A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
Susan James is impressed by an admirable study of a thinker who retains the power to disturb
-
Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon
Alex Danchev is ambivalent about a selection of images with status beyond their initial intent