Real pension consequences
Perhaps, rather than being so keen to join in radically diminishing staff pensions, Universities UK might like to think more broadly and more long term about the unanticipated consequences of the...
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100% pay penalty fails to see staff in round
I am writing to complain about how the University of Surrey is handling the University and College Union marking boycott. I am a final-year undergraduate and feel ashamed of the university that I...
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The week in higher education - 13 November 2014
Research from University College London that suggested migrants from the European Union had made a net contribution to the UK of £20 billion over the course of a decade was never likely to go down...
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Doors open as others swing shut
Policies on immigration often conflict with sector ambitions regarding overseas students and signal a turbulent spell ahead
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Scholars share horror stories
Fear and loathing in the academy
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What will be the impact on higher education of the new European commissioners?
Anne Corbett flags the ones to watch among commissioners for 2014-19
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Changes in the number of researchers
The UK has a lower share of researchers in its labour force than the US and Japan, according to an EU Commission report
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Environmentalist urges universities to take fossil fuels off back burner
Institutions ‘disappointingly slow’ at divesting of non-sustainable energy sources, says Bill McKibben
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University consortium calls for the academy to join the fight against global corruption
The Poznan Declaration calls on the higher education sector to play a far more active role
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Non-academic vice-chancellors face snobbery, AUA hears
Oxford’s deputy registrar excoriates prejudice against able leaders from outside the ‘closed’ culture of the academy
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Campus close-up: Teesside University
The decision to welcome Middlesbrough’s Mima art gallery into the university’s fold is expected to benefit both parties
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Germany aims to send 50 per cent of students abroad by 2020
Plans are part of industrial strategy to steal a march on other export-driven countries
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Brazil's main concern is research quality at its universities, says adviser
Rise in the number of private institutions is blamed for slipping standards
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Have your say on your working life
Employee review websites have the potential to change university cultures, says Alexandra Blakemore