Higher education news feeds are currently dominated by near-daily announcements of large job cuts across the UK. But what effect is all this having on the atmosphere within the departments affected...
There is something about handwriting that enhances the creative flow essential for academic study and scholarly activity, says Rich Smith
Better collaboration needed between industry and universities to develop the sector, says report
A union has warned that John Latham’s position is ‘incompatible’ with his responsibilities at the crisis-hit institution
Fortnightly leave pass to ‘provide leadership’ to consultants helped Wollongong’s interim boss ‘stay in touch with colleagues’
I don’t begrudge granting help to students who need it, but we must also have guard rails to deny it to those who don’t, says Nikolay Kukushkin
Long caught up in debates about academic freedom and internationalisation, liberal arts may not survive in city state beyond closure of pioneering partnership
Two dozen academics join ‘mainstream’ call for a health check on youth gender treatment
Financial benefits of increasing domestic recruitment ‘now negligible’, according to leaked document
Even if the department lives to fight another day, putting it under threat will have helped Republicans to ‘flood the zone’ and disorientate opponents, academics say
Hugh Brady warns 16 per cent fall in real-terms value of recurrent grant funding ‘threatens the very foundations of British science’
Over 80 per cent of union members vote for strike action after successive years or job cuts at University of East Anglia
Skills minister says upcoming White Paper will seek to address ‘fragmentation’ between further and higher education
Political pressures and legislative haziness leave institutions ‘on a hiding to nothing’