UCU calls off Newcastle strikes in error
Union mistakenly sends withdrawal notice to university amid confusion over who is and isn’t taking part in latest walkouts
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Northumbria plans £12.5 million staff cuts as recruitment stalls
Union fears more than 100 jobs at risk after university blames volatility for struggling to hit international student targets
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Employment umpire quashes Australian university staff deal
SCU decision the latest sign of doom for workplace agreements that lack union support
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How Tertiary Education Commission could reshape Australian sector
Proposed commission has no shortage of work even if the Universities Accord’s other recommendations fail to materialise
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Newcastle warns staff over working to contract
A second university has threatened academics with a loss of pay over working to rule, Times Higher Education has discovered.
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Tide turns on ‘inherently biased’ student evaluations of teaching
Universities begin to phase out module feedback exercises in favour of less formal check-ins and peer reviews
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Newcastle University staff express fears over new ‘targets’
‘Minimum expectations’ for research income will be used as part of staff performance review
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The week in higher education – 21 December 2023
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Free speech ‘deteriorating’ as sector waits for OfS interventions
New complaints scheme may help ensure more open debates on campuses in time but Gaza crisis necessitates action now, say campaigners
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Sharon Pickering named Monash vice-chancellor
Australia’s biggest university appoints from within after ‘rigorous and broad-scale’ executive search
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Souls to Newcastle?
HR ‘success factors’ accused of imposing conformity of body and spirit that runs contrary to academy’s values. Melanie Newman reports
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Newcastle students campaign against semesterisation
A survey of 220 students at Newcastle University has uncovered widespread opposition to the semesterised academic year. The survey organisers, the students' Courier newspaper, argue that students...
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‘Chilling effect’ preventing debate on Israel-Gaza, say academics
Universities cancelling events and threatening disciplinary proceedings has left scholars of Middle East feeling silenced
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‘Administrative error’ forces second UCU branch to cancel strikes
Staff union steps in to try to protect those responsible for mistakes, as anger grows among membership
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Two-thirds of UCU branches pull out of nationwide strikes
Several major universities face disruption at start of the academic year but appetite for taking action begins to fragment