Employment

Eighteen men have won an equal pay award against a Welsh university after claiming they had been paid less than their female colleagues.

Marking boycott suspended as union warns accepting deal would represent a ‘damaging defeat’

Survey finds earnings fluctuate by department and wages fail to reflect hours worked

Cardiff Metropolitan University has been criticised for imposing “bizarre” new contract terms on its professors.

California institution is first university to hire its own online encyclopedia editor in residence

Universities can improve their procedures by studying themselves instead of others, says Stephen Yorkstone

It’s misguided to think the tactic used in 2006 will succeed in today’s altered environment, says Paul Curran

Imperial College London ‘acted reasonably’ in sacking of geneticist who was harassed by Philippe Froguel

The University and College Union has agreed to postpone its planned boycott of marking after employers made a 2 per cent pay offer for next year.

Around 900 people have signed a petition calling for the University of Dundee to stop “unnecessary job cuts” at the institution

Lecturers who take part in a proposed marking boycott later this month could have 100 per cent of their pay docked, universities have warned.

Four-fifths of institutions fail to release details on how v-c salary was set

Decline in German professors’ pay over a century

As lecturers in the UK prepare for the UCU’s marking boycott, US campuses are experiencing a surge of unionisation

Nearly 60 per cent of black and minority ethnic higher education staff and students questioned for a survey feel they have been discriminated against

Many lecturers will not even consider the ‘nuclear option’ of boycotting marking in the pay dispute, says Bill Ashraf

Good communication is vital when dealing with allegations of harassment, says Luke Brunning

Efficiency task forces told to seek savings in radical changes to practices

What’s behind the big rises for vice-chancellors? Plus, academic pay across the UK

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Canterbury Christ Church University declines to disclose reasons for departure to Robin Baker upon ‘loss of office’

Tribunal rules that academic’s post was genuinely redundant

Letters asks UCU and Ucea to resolve differences

Black academics claim they are viewed as ‘outsiders’ and hindered in career advancement

Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman on the subject’s colour line

Union members have called for a prominent critic of higher education policy to be returned to work after he was suspended by the University of Warwick.

The perils of life on a contract with no guarantee of work

But university rejects claim suspension relates to activism

New book explores challenges female academics at Cambridge face on route to top

Former Imperial College lecturer claims low student satisfaction scores led to her dismissal

Scottish union angry that current dispute not on agenda

Teaching professionals who work unpaid overtime put in an extra 12 hours a week on average – the highest of any profession, a new study claims.

Below-inflation rise could prompt richer institutions to offer enhanced local deals, expert warns

Scholars dismayed by suggestion that those not deemed ‘excellent academics’ will lose their jobs

By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed

Universities are set to enter new talks with sector unions, after academics threatened a marking boycott

Workforce efficiencies study is about best practice, not cuts, body says

Experts foresee tough reaction from universities to UCU’s ‘ultimate sanction’

Women-friendly policies insufficient at even Athena SWAN universities, finds THE Best University Workplace Survey

Social scientists are of ‘lower average intelligence’ than those in natural sciences - at least at elite universities, authors argue

Dame Athene Donald brands MPs’ report on women in science ‘weak’

As strike force falters, some UCU members and industrial relations experts think escalation is needed

Universities have the resources to keep us safe, says Sara Perry. They just need the will

Striking academics call for better pay, but the PhD students who support their work are suffering even more, Fern Riddell says

Staff at 11 higher education institutions are to walk out for a whole day in a protest of what they believe is “unlawfully deducted” pay.

University staff have walked out for the fifth time over this year’s “miserly” 1 per cent pay offer.

Change in Tupe law means employers can offer new terms one year after move

Chair of Commons committee wants universities to ‘pull their socks up’ and tackle gender inequality

The UCU’s action is about fairness, equality and defending public higher education, say Tom Hickey and John Holmwood

Has accountability to stakeholders got out of hand? Steven Ward imagines an Orwellian world of over-assessment

But law might not be on its side in its effort to prevent docking of full day’s pay, solicitor says

Cambridge to put plan to set up new chair to vote after $6 million donation from Avery-Tsui Foundation

Paul Gibbons says lack of time, money and legal clarity can all affect universities’ responses to FoI Act requests

Inaugural THE Best University Workplace Survey reveals discontent and fears over security of employment

Researcher Helen E. Lees on using her bid-writing skills to help fund her new company – and freedom

Find out how academics and professional and support staff feel about working in UK higher education

University staff have taken part in a second two-hour strike over this year’s 1 per cent pay offer

Thousands take part despite pay threat, UCU says

Department head Philippe Froguel insists complaints of ‘bullying’ were intended to oust him from his post

Research is like a baby - insistently demanding and on its own timetable, as Rebecca Braun found on maternity leave