University governance

Extended senior management survey finds that employees are extremely unhappy with the people running universities

Universities must support those responsible for the impact case studies that will carry so much weight in the next research excellence framework, says Jonathan Grant

Work with communities and industry should be better captured by league tables, summit hears

Taiwan hopes that attracting students from further afield, particularly mainland China, will help to address its higher education crisis. But this in turn brings challenges, including compromised academic freedom, writes Chris Parr

The chief executive-designate of the UK’s new sector agency discusses her West Country roots, the roles of academics and administrators, and escaping to the country 

PSL’s high entry position in the THE World University Rankings reflects one of the ambitions of France’s programme of mergers, say John Ludden, Philippe Le Prestre and Jean-Marc Rapp

Salary transparency can promote equality but also tends to foment jealousy and strife among academic staff, as Adrian Furnham has seen at first hand

Unions should be seen as investments in teaching and research quality rather than cost-saving exercises, advises EUA governance specialist

THE pay data since 2010-11 show pay of UK leaders is going up faster than that of rank-and-file academics, but the reasons are less clear

If we are going to build societies of peace and consensus, we have to accept each other’s villains as elements of our common past, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

The ending of Murdoch University’s agreement with its staff over employment conditions could herald a rougher ride for university staff, says Gavin Moodie 

Leadership announced ahead of ECU, HEA and LFHE merger in 2018

Competition for students and the cash brought in by increased tuition fees explain why universities want to invest in leadership, writes Andrew McRae

Minister outlines plans for TEF and new regulator to tackle problem

The bullying and subsequent suicide of a talented Ivy League scientist exposes ugly truths about the cruelty and dysfunction at the heart of academic science

Minister to set out plans for new regulator to ‘use its powers’ on senior pay in UUK speech

Universities’ shabby treatment of casual academics flies in the face of their professed commitment to education and dignity, says Jedidiah Evans

Iconic Californian institution’s viability as a state university called into question by fall in public support and growing political intrusion, says ex-chancellor

Universities must communicate better if they are to avoid being presented as part of a ‘distant and malevolent elite’, says Dame Minouche Shafik

Just one leader of a top 10 UK university has a Twitter account, report reveals

Vice-chancellor says involving academics in conversations about resources and sticking to the core mission were key to turnaround

Professor warns full university status for complementary medicine institution would ‘downgrade credibility’ of UK sector

Foreign providers plan was misguided, but domestic selective funding option brings huge challenges, say experts

Remuneration committee member formerly led construction company that won £64 million in contracts from university

With the Hungarian government clamping down on universities and championing labourers over philosophers, David Matthews meets those living with the consequences

Creeping political interference in universities, from the UK to Hungary and the US, is part of a worrying shift in attitudes towards higher education

Ruth Simmons, interim leader of Prairie View A&M University, says universities are ‘failing’ at creating ‘fit leaders’

Carol Christ, new leader of the Californian university, also plans ‘free speech year’ for students and staff to engage with topic

Remuneration committees should pay less attention to other institutions when setting their leaders’ pay, says Nick Hillman

UK universities face uncertainty over the impact of Brexit and the TEF, the future for tuition fees and a pensions deficit. Which institutions have the financial clout and diversified portfolios to survive? Simon Baker runs the numbers

Universities used to be thought unsinkable, but the unthinkable – an institution going to the wall – is now a genuine, if yet remote, prospect

Analysis of THE World University Rankings data shows gender gap for top jobs has narrowed further

Australian capital emerging as branch campus hub for country’s universities

The subject-level teaching excellence framework could lead to a lot of stress for no great gains over the institution-level TEF, says Andrew McRae

Recent cases at universities of Mississippi and Southern California raise question of 'moral turpitude'

Claims that outsourcing in higher education improves efficiency are not proven, says analysis

Universities facing the challenges of developing a knowledge economy

National University of Singapore promotes provost Tan Eng Chye

Ellie Bothwell goes through the archives from 45 to five years ago and discovers some recurring themes

Scholar returning to homeland from US to lead university speaks of his concerns

Number of universities eligible to award federal financial aid down 5.6 per cent year-on-year

Scholar claims she was pressured to sign up to Higher Education Academy and did so without correct documents

Leader of Hong Kong Polytechnic University says institution ‘cannot think of itself as an isolated island’

Sector leader says the UK can offer insights into higher education’s role in regional growth strategies

Labour peer calls for funding council intervention on Glynis Breakwell’s salary

The former president of Carnegie Mellon University will lead the Singaporean institution from 2018

Round table discusses challenges of changing job market and political instability

Conditions that undermine the notion of scholarly vocation – relentless work, ubiquitous bureaucracy – can cause academics acute distress and spur them to quit, says Ruth Barcan

Expanding university enrolment across the world has resulted in universities ‘imitating each other’, says leading scholar

Futao Huang says that calls for Japan’s national universities to adopt more marketised leadership strategies have so far gone unheeded

Arizona State University’s Michael Crow was the highest-earning leader in 2015-16

Jo Johnson takes aim at Southampton’s leader in outspoken attack on ‘sharp increase’ in salaries

Several student accommodation blocks have been discovered with flammable cladding

The inventor of the concept of emotional intelligence explains how the idea can be built into the culture of universities

UK universities’ complacency in the good times has left them ill-equipped to respond to falling postgraduate master’s enrolment, says Michelle Morgan

The sweatshop conditions in which sessional academics work in Australia mirror the treatment of schoolteachers in Victorian times, say Hannah Forsyth and Jedidiah Evans 

President of proposed new engineering institution wants to use egalitarian management ethos of King Arthur ahead of its launch in 2020

University of West London wins top honour as Strathclyde and Gloucestershire take home two prizes each

Forty-one per cent of respondents to ACE survey describe political climate as ‘hostile’ to higher education

Hefce tells English universities that confidentiality agreements should be ‘the exception rather than the norm’