Language cuts 'harm community access'
New universities in London that are cutting language degrees because of a lack of demand have been warned that they are harming access for their local communities, writes Cherry Canovan. Michael...
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Medics lured to the City
Debt-ridden medical students are being tempted to abandon a career in health for jobs in the City, student leaders are warning. The British Medical Association is worried that the problem could...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times The Cancer Genome Project will ask the pharmaceutical industry to cooperate with a £30 million project to explore the underpinnings of cancer. Transplants of the larynx are likely to...
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Higher education appointments
University of Leeds Roger Gair has been appointed to the post of University Secretary. He was previously the University Deputy Secretary. Andrew Parkinson has been appointed to the new post of...
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Higher education awards
UMIST Mick Marchinton , professor in the school of management (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) has been advanced to companionship of the Chartered Institute of Personnel...
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Job losses feared as Glasgow forecasts £3m deficit
The threat of job cuts has re-emerged at Glasgow University less than three years after it shed hundreds of posts to combat an impending deficit. An internal audit predicts a £3 million shortfall by...
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Slick move for science
Meanwhile, back in Canada: the College of the North Atlantic, in St John's, Newfoundland, has struck oil. About 1,154 barrels of an oil-and-water mixture, spilt accidentally 25 years ago, was...
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Thais fight to save 'sacred' site
Hundreds of students and lecturers have signed a petition in protest at plans to move humanities and social science graduates from Thammasat University's central Bangkok campus to a second campus on...
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Latest international news
Ethiopia releases academics after month in jail Two leading Ethiopian academics have been released on bail after 28 days in jail in Addis Ababa. Mesfin Wolde Mariam and Birhanu Nega have denied...
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Oz feels the strain of student rise
Enrolments at Australia's universities continue to outstrip the growth in staff numbers, and student-to-teacher ratios have reached their highest levels in decades. Figures compiled by the Australian...
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Next week
NEWS Science moves up the political agenda FEATURES Does God exist? John Polkinghorne looks at scientific evidence for the divine in the first of our series on Big Science Questions BOOKS The crisis...
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How to get students to write with confidence
When it comes to putting ideas down on paper, a little good advice can go a very long way, writes Mark Griffiths. Writing is a basic but time-consuming activity in higher education. It is also...
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Latest UK news
V-cs press new government for more cash Vice-chancellors lost no time today in pressing the government for more cash for universities after Labour’s second landslide election victory. Baroness...
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Billboards back off from hard messages
Public apathy about the general election left the main political parties struggling to find a memorable message to display on advertising billboards, Mark Garnett, an academic political pundit, said...
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Employers and lecturers to unite to lobby for better pay
A joint lobby of the next Parliament for better pay by lecturers' unions and employers in further education looks likely, both sides agreed this week. The Association of Colleges reiterated its call...