Reprieve for University of Reading’s chemistry department

The council at the University of Reading has decided to keep the department of chemistry open ‘for the time being’. Reading had proposed moving chemistry to the school of pharmacy in October.

However, the university will still end recruitment for the MSc and MChem programmes and will only support chemistry research aligned with allied health professions, dentistry, nursing and pharmacy (Research Excellence Framework’s (REF) unit of assessment 3 (UoA3)).