Stark disparity in paternity pay, says UCU
Packages vary widely with 10 universities offering new fathers only two weeks’ statutory pay
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Pathway providers hope for US bonanza
For-profit firms eye tie-ups with regional institutions ‘desperate’ to boost international intake
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Students spend more time studying
The amount of time that students spend in class and studying alone each week on average has increased over the past eight years
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Delegation to the Gaza Strip labelled risky and wasteful
UCU congress approves plan to send information-gathering group but cost and safety concerns are raised
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Congress says ‘no’ to notion of a little local lift
Motion to allow staff at better-off institutions to arrange extra pay voted down at UCU congress
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Queen’s University Belfast’s ‘Vision’ draws UCU alarm
Union warns of negative consequences of ‘radical’ budgetary oversight and professorial pay reforms sent to Senate
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UK R&D investment: value for money, but too little money?
New UCL professor Graeme Reid, formerly BIS’ head of research funding, points to public support for science investment
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Don't wait until students graduate, fundraisers told
Emulate US institutions’ efforts to ‘shape lifelong donors’ while they are still undergraduates, Case report says
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Campus close-up: University Campus Suffolk
UCS is finalising plans to become a fully fledged university
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Academic freedom is being constricted, scholar says
Matthew Reisz talks to Sunaina Maira, editor of The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent
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Chile offers warm welcome to overseas students
Learn Chile project launched to attract students from abroad
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Bodleian trains librarians to access all areas
Heritage Lottery Fund scheme to support trainee archivists on work and study programme. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments
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Europe’s electoral quakes call for shock detectors
Rightward lurches at the polls means migration studies are more essential than ever, says Mette Louise Berg
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All literary festivals great and small
Christopher Bigsby on the hardships and high points of life under canvas
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Oral history: where next after the Belfast Project?
While a legal fight led to the unravelling of promises of confidentiality, some researchers argue that there is a silver lining