Thawing UK reserve
"Ghettos" of overseas students need to be broken up if UK universities are to lose a reputation for being "less friendly" than other nations. A report from the Council for Industry and Higher...
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Baker to head GuildHE
David Baker, principal of University College Plymouth St Mark and St John, replaces Pamela Taylor as chair of GuildHE. Professor Baker, previously vice-chair, will serve for two years at the...
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Building go-getters
Fewer than half of English universities have the right institutional policies, staff programmes and infrastructure in place to develop an entrepreneurial culture, according to a study by the National...
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LJMU's star chancellor
Rock star and astrophysicist Brian May has been confirmed as the new chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. Dr May, who shot to stardom with rock band Queen, succeeds Cherie Booth QC in the...
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Anti-terror funds awarded
Winners of nine grants from a controversial Foreign Office-funded programme to help combat terrorism have been announced. Last year, The Times Higher revealed that the Economic and Social Research...
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RAE process 'would exclude Nobel laureates'
Nobel laureates would have had their papers rejected for the research assessment exercise if the methods used at Queen Mary, University of London, were applied to them, an academic there has claimed...
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Bodleian library plan rejected
Oxford University's controversial plan for a giant book storage facility was dealt a severe blow this week when city councillors refused it planning permission, writes Melanie Newman. The blueprint...
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Society 'shocked'
The Royal Astronomical Society says it is "shocked" by the sudden decision of the Science and Technology Facilities Council to withdraw the UK from the Gemini Observatory. The UK has been a key...
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Scots economy boost
A new institute to help researchers tackle some of the problems facing the Scottish economy has officially opened at Edinburgh University. The Scottish Institute for Research in Economics brings...
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Belfast joins Kolkata
Queen's University in Belfast and Bengal Engineering and Science University, Kolkata, have launched a scholarship programme to allow Indian science and technology students to live and work in Belfast...
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Global leaders wanted
Oxford and Princeton universities have jointly launched a new postdoctoral fellowship programme for would-be "global leaders" in developing countries. The Global Leaders Fellowship Programme will...
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Cash for healthy firms
New funding will boost a Warwick University programme helping small companies to prosper in the health sector. WMG, a Warwick University department that works with industry, has received an extra £1....
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A man with dramatic plot lines to make research work
Andrew Lavender dean of research, central school of speech and drama. French academics can rest easy. Despite orchestrating a play in which a family curse causes a man to kill French intellectuals in...
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Old rivalries resurface in Commons committee
Labour's anti-top-up campaigner to lock horns with the more pragmatic Lib Dem chair of new body overseeing higher education. Zoe Corbyn writes. Two MPs with key roles in a new parliamentary committee...
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The new home of the best and brightest?
As the University of Melbourne implements a radical new higher education model, some UK universities are showing interest in following suit. Hannah Fearn reports. Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the...