Staff at Strathclyde and Durham vote to walk out in disputes over job losses and workloads, while Northumbria to be hit with disruption in row over pensions
Candidates who stood in 2024 poll seek rerun of campaign after alleging incumbent broke rules by using internal resources – claims strongly denied by union
New Ucea chair warns ‘much is at stake’ if unions and employers don’t collaborate to tackle ‘negative’ sector image, as he promises action on the ‘employee experience’
University says it has been forced into making ‘decisions we could have never previously imagined’ after steep drop in international student numbers
Academics claim changes made to higher education system a decade ago have divided sector into ‘winners and losers’, with government-imposed limits on income exacerbating financial challenges
Teaching assistants have demanded fair pay for years but industrial action has made little progress. AI offers a significant raise, notes Michael Buehler
ߣߣÊÓÆµn National University’s 60-year-old school to become a ‘programme’, as performance, composition and theory give way to ‘music and well-being’
University ‘unlikely to be able to award degrees’, union says, as it holds walkouts over 100 job cuts - but institution insists it has a contingency plan
Savings only part of the motivation for university’s ‘realignment’ to ‘remain relevant’, but union says management wants the humanities ‘burned’
Use of ‘hypocritical’ confidentiality agreements by UK’s biggest academic union criticised, with increasingly disgruntled staff set to stage rally outside own offices