Employment

Falling inflation and no strikes have taken the sting out of negotiations this year, but that hasn’t made reaching an agreement any easier

Swedish report finds almost a third of research and teaching staff held fixed-term positions in 2022

UCU says it has secured an average 15 per cent wage increase for supervisors at Cambridge, and pay raise of 14 per cent for some doctoral tutors at Sussex

THE analysis finds some UK universities had fewer women in the top pay bracket in 2022-23 than they did in 2014-15

Department of Education says data shows return to the pattern of consistent growth observed before Covid-19

Surrey was one of only a handful of UK institutions that was found to have a negative flow of cash in its 2021-22 financial statements

Forty jobs set to go at university

Professor faces dismissal from Leiden after reports of inappropriate behaviour, also involving her husband, spanning more than three decades

Union threatens strike and says cuts will leave university ‘a shell of its former self’

Institutions where hundreds of roles are at risk will have to radically change the way they operate, staff warn, with big impact on students and the wider community

Investigation finds research careers create ‘perverse incentives’ that cause academics to ‘lose sight of boundaries’

Number of institutions making redundancies passes 50, reflecting scale of financial challenge facing sector, but even some senior leaders fear rush into irreversible changes will do long-term harm

Union fears scale of cost-cutting imperils local economy in region already facing economic challenges

Study finds scholarly autonomy used to justify breaches of 48-hour weekly working hours cap

Booker Prize-winning author is latest arts leader to speak out against job shedding at celebrated university

A quarter of modern institutions looking to shed upwards of 50 roles, with agreements on teaching loads and promotion also under threat, UCU survey finds

Teachers fret about workloads and researchers about job security in ‘rare sport’ of academia

Thousands of employees of few remaining non-foundation institutions say earnings have been heavily eroded by inflation

UCU members back more industrial action over job cuts at London institution but Northumbria dispute could soon end after compulsory redundancies ruled out

Experts concerned exodus could be linked to lack of career progression for minority scholars

University becomes the latest to restructure due to funding crisis in English higher education

Author among lecturers at under-fire institution to oppose plans that union says are ‘unprecedented in scale, intensity and speed’

Union branches accuse institutions of planning to breach agreement that protects research time and promotion prospects

Institutions need more flexibility on whether to participate in mandatory government-run pensions scheme, Ucea and UUK argue

Winchester, Surrey and Queen Mary latest to shed academic positions as industrial disputes heat up elsewhere

UK universities must make flexible working ‘the default’, including in high-salary jobs, to tackle gender pay gaps, says thinktank

In global survey, barely one in 10 academic leaders say they feel well prepared to address the challenges of providing competitive compensation

Plans to introduce 20 per cent ‘baseline’ for research time will harm university’s standing in academia and beyond, warns critic

Author of controversial book and journal paper takes up one-year ‘presidential scholar’ post after institutional takeover by allies of Ron DeSantis

University lifts possibility of compulsory redundancies ahead of planned six-day walkout

While new Australian data identify regional universities as the most inequitable payers, experts highlight the ‘different conditions and challenges’

Three business school researchers who lost their jobs after their research was seen as not meeting strategic priorities win employment case

University of London institutions announce plans to restructure departments, affecting dozens of jobs

Those living with chronic energy-impairing illnesses need support from funders and publishers, not just universities, says researcher

Australian study finds good prospects for research degree graduates, so long as they look beyond academia

Two authors employed on service contracts for 15 years argued they were denied workplace rights

Union fears more than 100 jobs at risk after university blames volatility for struggling to hit international student targets

‘No less favourable’ provision a ‘major win’ for university staff or a handbrake on their salaries, depending on perspective

University apologises after students say they have been treated with ‘no compassion’ after raising concerns about professor

Union branch votes to take industrial action after university proposes closing single honours degrees, affecting 30 jobs

Union and employer body clash on ways to prevent more industrial action as they appear in front of MPs investigating impact of last year’s marking boycott

University blames external factors for cutbacks as accounts show improving financial position

Researchers are leaving the profession in alarming numbers, but study suggests gender has surprisingly little to do with it

Union ranks institutions on efforts to better support precarious workforce, and finds most failing to get to grips with the issue

Time reserved for research ‘being eroded’, says UCU, as university insists it is seeking to create ‘more flexible workforce’

Dismissal over workload dispute ‘merely the latest ploy’ in Australian university’s long-running campaign to oust ‘conservative academic’

It might sound ‘wishy-washy’ but joyfulness can succeed where KPIs fail in supporting the institutional mission, new book argues

The tentative agreement includes a retroactive 5 per cent salary increase for all faculty at the largest public university in the US, and potentially another in July

Tribunal rules criminologist Jo Phoenix was forced out of institution, which was ‘fearful’ about being seen to support gender-critical beliefs

Largest US public university system, saying it can’t afford union demands, plans to keep classes open during walkout

Viacheslav Morozov of the University of Tartu was detained earlier this month

Analysis of accounts indicates significant increase in spending compared with previous years

Exodus of junior scholars from Europe tips balance of university workforce

Revised policy fails to address key causes of research career precarity, university leaders say

All but a handful of universities now tarnished by short-changing scandal, according to academic union

Institution faces first legal test of its EJRA policy as it grapples with fallout from Oxford tribunal

Long series of demonstrations aims to resurrect troubled lecturer, largely because students value her bigger understandings

Delight and alarm in equal measures, as political manoeuvres and drafting technicalities limit both casual employment and its antidote

Johns Hopkins team uses salary data to highlight longstanding failures across education and workplaces to provide equal opportunities for career advancement

Sacked neuropathologist Manuel Graeber says university was happy with his work before he lodged disclosure about management