News in brief - 30 January 2014
University of GlasgowWhistleblower joins rector raceEdward Snowden is standing as a candidate to be rector of the University of Glasgow. The whistleblower, who leaked documents revealing US and UK...
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University of Montreal cancels Wiley-Blackwell deal subscription
Cost-conscious institution rejects publisher’s ‘big deal’ on more than 1,000 journals
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Transplant inspires siblings’ Bloodlines project
Milton and Alex Mermikides’ AHRC-funded work fuses music, dance and medicine
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Campus close-up: Southampton Solent University
Innovation in creative disciplines, high student employability and wide participation are strengths, says vice-chancellor Van Gore
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World in brief - 30 January 2014
SingaporeOur man in the GULFThe president of a Singaporean university has been appointed by the World Economic Forum to chair a world higher education body. Tan Chorh Chuan, president of the National...
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Go8 wants fees on high return courses uncapped
ߣߣƵ’s top universities have asked to be freed from price capping for courses with the highest graduate-earning premium
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Ben Jonson online resource launched
A new interactive website has been launched to provide the definitive resource for studying the great 17th-century poet and playwright Ben Jonson
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Paul Boyle to be next Leicester v-c
Economic and Social Research Council chief executive Paul Boyle has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester
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Costa book prize: lecturer Nathan Filer wins
A former psychiatric nurse who is now a lecturer in creative writing has been awarded the Costa Book of the Year award for his debut novel.
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Universities in Scotland damaged by Westminster ‘xenophobia’
Scotland’s universities are being damaged by a Westminster immigration policy that is “driven by Ukip and a nasty xenophobia”
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Fraunhofer head predicts expansion of model in UK
Fraunhofer UK plans to create up to four research centres in its first five years, according to the head of the country’s first centre in Glasgow
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UCU stages pay walk-out
University staff have taken part in a second two-hour strike over this year’s 1 per cent pay offer
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Scotland’s university funding for 2014-15 revealed
The budget for universities in Scotland will remain almost exactly the same in cash terms in 2014-15, the Scottish Funding Council has confirmed
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Record numbers of US students choose UK
The number of Americans taking full undergraduate degrees in the UK has risen by almost 30 per cent in the last four years, new figures show
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St Mary’s college picks up university title
A Catholic college has become the UK’s newest university