Academy sees Society with no divisions
Society , a new journal to be launched next year by the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, will aim to publish papers that cut across social sciences boundaries. Some academics...
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Major research funders welcome advent of biological science research archive
A freely accessible digital archive of UK research papers in the biological sciences came a step closer to realisation this week as applications were sought to run UK PubMed Central. Research funders...
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Scientists at Oxford fear lab closures
Two of the world's largest and most prestigious science departments, Oxford University's physics and chemistry faculties, face a funding crisis that is threatening jobs and laboratory space. Some...
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Hood writes to reassure worried staff over planned changes to governance
John Hood, the vice-chancellor of Oxford University, has written to staff to try to head off a revolt over plans to overhaul the university's decision-making system and library services and to...
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Ulster council to consider confidential report into v-c's management
Ulster University's council is expected to consider a confidential report investigating complaints about the management methods of Gerry McKenna, the vice-chancellor, next week. Professor McKenna,...
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UCLan bid to restore chemistry provision
The University of Central Lancashire is planning to reopen the chemistry department it closed six years ago, bucking the national trend to cut provision in the field. UCLan is now recruiting chemists...
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Noteworthy move
Noteworthy move: aspiring musicians can apply to seven music colleges through a centralised electronic admissions service launched this week. Applicants seeking undergraduate and postgraduate courses...
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Elite fret over admissions
Research-led universities are banding together to share their doubts about the Government's plans to allow students to apply to university after they receive their A-level grades, The Times Higher...
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Eastell suspended as finances are queried
Richard Eastell, the medical scientist under investigation for alleged research misconduct at Sheffield University, has been suspended from his role as director of research at his local National...
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By George, it's a bespoke course
First Next, then George at Asda, then Per Una for Marks and Spencer, and now George at Heriot-Watt. Fashion visionary George Davies, who transformed the high-street experience, has designs on...
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Welsh trio told to unite or fade
Three Welsh universities have been warned in an official report that they face a "spiral of decline" unless they set aside past grievances to collaborate or merge. The three post-92 universities in...
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Lack of cover prompts legal bid
A second group of students is threatening to take Swansea University to court over the closure of their departments as philosophy undergraduates prepare for a preliminary hearing on their lawsuit...
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Loans cripple US dropouts
Boston. Borrowing cash to pay university tuition fees is putting a crushing financial burden on US students who drop out, according to a report. The study, produced by the National Center for Public...
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Oz effort to keep outpost
Melbourne. Australia's only European study centre, in the Tuscan town of Prato, has been forced to open an English-language school to try to meet some of the running costs. Monash University set up...
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Supersizing on the Seine
Paris. The American University of Paris, the oldest US institution of higher education in Europe, is to launch its first masters programmes and is planning a big increase in student enrolments. "We'...