Employment

Graduate talent spotter says UK’s ‘theoretical’ courses should be more like those in continental Europe

Unions and universities divided over extent of ‘casualisation’ despite major joint initiative

As more women push on the ‘sticky door’, Paula Nicolson reflects on her own experiences over three decades

The way universities perceive and handle flexible hours is an area for improvement, says a joint report by employers and unions

Predicted £310 million deficit prompts sweeping changes for non-academic personnel

Women in university senior management earn significantly less than men in equivalent roles, says new report

Sweeping changes to the laws governing industrial disputes could restrict unions’ ability to call strike action, writes Jack Grove

Alison Hayman says that she is ‘not incapable’ and her treatment was ‘unjust’

University and College Union says proposals could mean a third of Wolverhampton's research professors lose their jobs

But university governing body says it recognises ‘distress’ caused to Nobel laureate and his UCL scientist wife by his dismissal

Consultant gynaecologist and Imperial College London professor Jenny Higham takes over at South London institution

George Osborne's plan for a minimum £9 an hour will not affect vast majority of university staff, but there will be cost implications for institutions, says Jack Grove

Shahidha Bari on a supposedly fun thing that makes her apprehensive

Symposium speakers, including activist David Graeber, examine the real function of bureaucracy and how the academy can fight back

Pension relief, salary sacrifice schemes and higher education budgets could be targeted by George Osborne, says Jack Grove

Two unions reject 1 per cent offer, but Unison and GMB get behind it

Post-2007 conditions are worse, workloads are higher and it’s ‘all about the money’ for management, report three-quarters of survey respondents

Six early career researchers reflect on their experiences

Funding for nursing and physiotherapy courses 'lowest of any subject in higher education'

Future of the 400-year-old Catholic college is uncertain after decision to leave federal university in 2018

Imperial College London vice-provost Debra Humphris has been appointed as the new head of the South Coast institution.

What are the key issues local union branches are dealing with, and how do they manage relationships with institutions in what many activists argue is an increasingly confrontational environment?

Popular action can still make a difference, as the U-turn on the fate of a university politics department shows, says John Holford

More than half of staff at university that tried to launch TeachHigher are employed on such deals

Refusal by John Allen to obey instruction from manager at Queen Mary University of London led to his sacking, tribunal rules

Importance of doctoral candidates in research makes it likely that many institutions will make the change, says principal

Ulster University is to cut up to 210 jobs and lose around 1,200 student places to cope with a £8 million reduction in Northern Ireland’s higher education budget

Nicole Westmarland shares what she learned about creating a new way of working in academia after losing her spouse

Paper addresses ‘stark under-representation’ of black and minority ethnic staff in university senior management

FoI request reveals which institutions have targets of some sort after the suicide last year of a professor at Imperial College London

Once upon a time there was an adjunct lecturer…By Nicholas Rowe

But new report reveals that the president was not the highest-paid person on campus at more than half of institutions

Former postdoctoral researchers will now be counted as alumni at the University of Cambridge

Job losses could be in prospect at Aston University, with the institution saying it has to “look at how we do things” in the light of more higher education cuts.

Poor materials, disengaged students and little time or incentive to prepare dishearten one casualised academic

Union advocates rejection of pay offer and Prevent strategy implementation

Support staff to remain on single salary spine with a bespoke model set up to allow institution to compete for top early career researchers

The general secretary of the University and College Union has called for unity as the organisation approaches its 10^th anniversary.

Survey details the financial and personal costs of casualisation in higher education

More than 200 jobs could go at the University of Exeter as part of plans to save £25 million

Continental system is critical to stop drain to US, Patrick Aebischer argues

The couple sacked over alleged leaks had their appeal thrown out by the University of Bolton last week

Amanda Goodall and Margit Osterloh explore the causes of and solutions to the dearth of women at the top of UK academia

When his university found evidence of a £2,000 gender pay gap, it knew what was the right thing to do - and it did it, says David Wilkinson

But those on low pay to be offered up to 2.65 per cent, says Ucea

UCU reacts by pledging to instruct lawyers to fight decision

The misapplication of private sector HR techniques harms individuals without raising performance, says Rob Briner

Around 40 jobs could be at risk at the University of Manchester after it announced plans to drop longstanding opposition to compulsory redundancies

Carol Hay and John Kaag make one final heroic push in the final straight of the academic year

A tale of quiet devotion to scholarship seems all the more poignant given the relentless nature of today’s academy, says Rachel Carey

Two trade unions are urging the University of Bolton to overturn its decision to dismiss two employees for allegedly leaking information to the press

A Scottish university broke the law when it let staff on fixed-term contracts go without consulting unions, the Supreme Court has ruled

Employers have called on unions to “consider carefully the real value” of a 0.9 per cent pay offer for university employees.

An undergraduate taught by the recently dismissed University of Bolton lecturer Damien Markey has described how the decision has affected students.

Benjamin Poore calls on universities to reject plans likely to make hourly paid lecturers’ lot poorer and more precarious

Extravagant claims for the right of scholars to say almost anything endanger support for the principle, says Martyn Hammersley

The president of Imperial College London has spoken directly about the suicide of Stefan Grimm for the first time in public.

Staff at the University of Surrey may strike later this term over plans to axe up to 100 jobs.

Critics of the University of Warwick’s TeachHigher division also wary of UK-wide franchise

People are right to believe that revealing mental health problems at work will do more harm than good, says an academic living with depression