The Jo Phoenix case shows the perils of academic mobbing
It is not easy for university management to push back against large numbers of people, but resisting harassment should be paramount, says Ian Pace
It is not easy for university management to push back against large numbers of people, but resisting harassment should be paramount, says Ian Pace
Union ranks institutions on efforts to better support precarious workforce, and finds most failing to get to grips with the issue
A Sin against the Future
NURSING: LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY 1992 rating: 3 1996 rating: 3a A rapid turn around of staff at Liverpool University's nursing department may have taken its toll in respect of research ratings. Karen...
Time reserved for research ‘being eroded’, says UCU, as university insists it is seeking to create ‘more flexible workforce’
It might sound ‘wishy-washy’ but joyfulness can succeed where KPIs fail in supporting the institutional mission, new book argues
A change in atmosphere has encouraged academics to return to the country where they were once maligned, but funding pressures and issues with polarisation continue
The tentative agreement includes a retroactive 5 per cent salary increase for all faculty at the largest public university in the US, and potentially another in July
Union members voting on who should be next general secretary, with incumbent under pressure from all sides
Some narcissistic v-cs have lost sight of their real job – to be the custodian of their university’s heritage and to safeguard its future, says Kieran Walshe
Awards seek to ‘support the sustained enhancement of research capacity’ across regions
Elitist, undemocratic activists’ revolutionary aspirations explain their enthusiasm for futile industrial action, say John Kelly and Adam Ozanne
Union ready to ‘robustly protect education’ amid widespread job cuts, as leader changes tone ahead of re-election battle
Difficulties finding new roles and uprooting families complicate desires to leave states such as Florida after political meddling
As high-profile case drags on, legal experts say issues regulator has faced are a harbinger of what is to come