The UCU’s failure on working conditions is not all down to Jo Grady
The general secretary’s visibility makes her a natural target for discontent, but many of the blunders arose from committee decisions, says Dyfrig Jones
The general secretary’s visibility makes her a natural target for discontent, but many of the blunders arose from committee decisions, says Dyfrig Jones
Researchers will work with faculty co-led by Sir Tony Blair at huge new multidisciplinary institute funded by Oracle software magnate Larry Ellison
Tory conference hears much talk of apprenticeships, with education secretary on mission to ‘change every middle-class mind in country’
Platform offers scholars a way of building a profile and livelihood away from universities, but what makes a successful Substacker, and is there really room for everyone?
With deadlines rushed and then missed, even the straightforward work of Australia’s major higher education review is looking anything but
As a parliamentary committee inquires into a proposed merger of two universities, institutional accounts suggest they coasted through the last big scare
Drop in success rates for competitive research funding at many UKRI councils highlighted by Innovate UK’s improved hit rate
Vassar College faces lawsuit brought by current and former faculty members as gender pay gap across US higher education widens
Barack Obama’s favourite political thinker Yascha Mounk has made his career attacking right-wing populism. His latest target – identity politics fostered on US campuses – will surprise many of his...
Higher education minister given direct warning at UUK conference, where Labour pledges to create ‘more sustainable system’
Researcher who revealed censorship of gender critical feminists says no-debate policies on transgender issues are causing ‘scholarly paralysis’
By creating one large, centralised research funder, Indian government is ‘pouring old wine into new bottle’, say academics, who doubt it will be able to solve the plethora of issues facing science in...
Canberra agrees to funding guarantee, governance reform, ditching of ‘fail rule’ and uncapped funding for all indigenous students, as it mulls ‘wider change’
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
Publisher’s replacement of editor-in-chief comes as it pushes for seven-fold increase in acceptances