There is no silver bullet in the UK’s pension dispute
The latest USS valuation may have been conducted amid crashing markets, but there is no escaping the need for changes, says Kate Barker
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THE Awards 2021: winners announced
Oxford coronavirus research honoured as Cardiff Met scoops coveted University of the Year title
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Covid-safe teaching helps to add £1 million to campus gas bill
Estates directors complain about academics wanting offices to be ‘toasty warm’ around the clock despite visiting for only a couple of hours a week
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Covid a ‘kick up the backside’ on pedagogical strategy
Academics and estates teams must work together to drive through the linked changes in infrastructure and teaching
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Fresh strike ballots at dozens of UK universities
UCU to reballot 42 branches that narrowly missed turnout threshold
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The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960-1990, by Philipp Felsch
Peter Osborne is intrigued by an account of the political and philosophical ideas that shaped the West German left
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Support historians targeted in culture wars, says David Olusoga
Scholars attacked for research into colonialism and atrocities of empire need professional support and counselling, says broadcaster
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Stop ‘selfish’ PIs holding back junior scholars, says QMUL head
Cash and frameworks can help but improving diversity within research really requires diversity as a core institutional value, says Colin Bailey
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Low NSS scores mid-pandemic aimed at government, claims v-c
York leader tells THE Campus Live that ‘tattoo parlours had much more notice’ of Covid restrictions than students
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Australia boosts work rights for overseas master’s graduates
Three-year post-study work visa features among changes to lure students and reduce costs to institutions
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Australian regulator clears Turnitin buyout of Ouriginal
Anti-plagiarism giant’s acquisition of a key rival ‘will not substantially lessen competition’, ACCC finds
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Welsh tertiary regulator ‘could be model for England’
Creation of CTER by Welsh government part of shift to ‘rethink the model of post-compulsory education for high participation societies’
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The week in higher education – 25 November 2021
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Sir Michael Rutter, 1933-2021
Tributes paid to ‘one of the most influential psychiatric scientists of his generation’
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Interview with Annebella Pollen
The winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize talks about the importance of ‘mass photography’ and her experience of studying as a single parent