Can UCU get the vote out for a sector-wide UK university strike?
Dramatic change in context could help union secure mandate for broader action but scale of challenge remains daunting
Dramatic change in context could help union secure mandate for broader action but scale of challenge remains daunting
Britain’s first history professor of African heritage discusses Colston, the ‘myth’ of Windrush and surviving in academia without support
A bitter feud between the head of one of Oxford’s grandest colleges and its dons made front-page news. As a new, internally recruited vice-chancellor prepares to take office, Jack Grove hears from...
Modern institutions get millions more in quality-related grants, in first allocations to use 2021 REF results
Local union branches secure major wins in long-running disputes but others left with nothing
Modern universities’ medical schools seen as key for access, NHS and levelling up neglected regions in England, with calls for expansion to go further
Australian university tops fourth edition of global ranking measuring institutions’ social and economic impact
Back-to-campus plans hit snags on both sides of the Tasman
Mandates the least worst option, as vice-chancellors await ‘the inevitable court cases’
Combined with results of pensions ballot, union has mandate for walkouts at less than four in 10 institutions polled
Academic and author honoured for ‘uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee’
If it all goes wrong, universities will not be able to avert truly disastrous consequences, says Rama Thirunamachandran
Union members at 152 UK institutions asked to walk out for fourth time in little over three years
Management blamed for ‘constraining of voice’ that corrals public interventions into academics’ disciplinary areas
Nicholas Till reflects on the path that has led him from research on opera to direct political action