Plans to link staff seniority to teaching quality in TEF ‘absurd’
Academics with higher qualifications or more experience could get higher scores in subject-level teaching excellence framework
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Course cuts may be taste of things to come for Australian sector
Programme closures at Australian Catholic University are more disruptive than previously realised
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USS strike: regulator is to blame for pensions crisis
The Pensions Regulator, not universities, is the driving force behind proposed cuts due to its nonsensical approach to discount rates, argue David Bailey and John Clancy
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Slashing PhD prices for international students was a masterstroke
New Zealand is reaping many benefits from reducing the cost of a PhD for international students a decade ago, says Brett Berquist
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UK university strikes to continue as UCU rejects pension deal
Universities UK describes decision as ‘hugely disappointing’
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USS strike: picket line debates will re-energise scholarship
The reawakening of political activism within academia sparked by the pensions strike will reinvigorate scholarship, says Jana Bacevic
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Mexican academics told to leave UK after doing research abroad
Ernesto Schwartz-Marín and his wife Arely Cruz-Santiago told that their family has just 14 days to leave country
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Bearded ladies: scientists’ push for equality heads to big screen
Scholarship scheme set up from funds raised by the campaign aims to promote future generations of women in research
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Nationalistic fraternity members join Austrian university boards
Political appointees to governing councils are ‘the weakest and most provincial ones we’ve ever had’, says Universities Austria
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Asia’s top university makes computational thinking compulsory
Tan Eng Chye says teaching models ‘cannot afford to keep still’, even if some students are reluctant to study programming
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Employers strike deal with UCU leaders in USS pension talks
Agreement raises hopes that strike action could be suspended later this week
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Australian universities fear decline in Chinese enrolments
Impact of diplomatic tensions between the two countries may yet be to bite
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USS strike: social media has collapsed the case for pension cuts
Academic sleuths have used investigative skills and Twitter to tell the real story behind proposed pension cuts, says Sherrill Stroschein