UCU faces ‘ultimate test’ as v-cs seek to blunt marking boycott
Union attempts to rally members behind potentially game-changing action despite threats of 100 per cent wage deductions
Union attempts to rally members behind potentially game-changing action despite threats of 100 per cent wage deductions
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
Interest in India growing as Washington-Beijing tensions show no indication of waning, scholars say
Close as can be: Are true friendships possible in academia?
Despite ‘debt avalanche’, universities stress that tuition fee loans are ‘not like grocery bills’
In high-profile instance of Trump administration crackdown, former Harvard nanoscientist gets leniency as he faces incurable cancer
New College of Florida governing board assembled by governor refuses faculty-backed professor candidates
Farah Karim-Cooper – one of the UK’s few ethnic minority Shakespeare professors – reflects on being an outsider in a discipline not known for its non-white faces and ponders how diversity can be...
The Dutch scientist on the physics of surfing, his re-entry into additive manufacturing and how he’s ‘drinking from the firehose’ as dean of sport
Elite universities could be doing far more to help disadvantaged students, regardless of what the Supreme Court decides on affirmative action, say makers of Exclusion U documentary
The barrage of personal abuse faced by women in leadership positions risks our gains on gender equality, says Dawn Freshwater
Challenger institutions offer innovation and dynamism, but ignorance and monopolistic behaviour is holding them back, says Edward Venning
Legislation aiming to eradicate ‘cancel culture’ will be used across political spectrum, not only by Conservatives, former minister predicts
Aiming to deny routine extension of federal debt limit, House conservatives hope to force lower Pell grant upon millions of borrowers
Parental income should not influence eligibility for living allowances, Australian academics argue