Employment

Union warns of negative consequences of ‘radical’ budgetary oversight and professorial pay reforms sent to Senate

No victimisation, tribunal rules, in Unison official’s case against the university

Up to 120 positions to be lost across three health schools

Thirty universities have joined the national trial of a new race equality initiative.

Sally Hunt praises the NHS as she reveals the reason behind her six months off work

Study uncovers out-of-date policies

Criticism follows latest vacancies for controversial contracts

Lecturers ‘at mercy of students’ after introduction of anonymous teaching evaluation method

Settlements and legal fees are high compared with other sectors, says lawyer

Tim Birkhead offers hosts a 10-step guide on how not to behave

Craig Brandist on the parallels between Stalin’s Russia and the operation of today’s universities

Emily Howard had an English degree and great expectations. Now jobless, she wonders if prospective students are given the whole truth

Proposal to shift all active members to career average system to tackle £13 billion deficit

Academics hit their creative peak in their fifties. Amanda Goodall and John Montgomery say universities must adapt

Contract lecturers down tools in protest over pay ‘that does not reflect hours worked’

UCU branch ‘strongly opposes’ changing scope of statute

Union threatens action over subtraction of a day’s pay for a two-hour walkout

An assessment boycott has been dropped, but fair pay is still a long way off, says general secretary Sally Hunt

Poor levels of financial support will ‘force women to return to work too quickly’

Marking boycott called off as 2 per cent offer accepted

Australian survey suggests women pay a higher career penalty when they become parents

But tribunal cuts scientist’s payout by 20 per cent to reflect ‘perverse’ attitude

The Athena SWAN charter does advance gender equality in university departments that sign up to it, according to an independent review of the scheme.

The University and College Union has officially called off its marking boycott after members voted to accept a new pay deal from employers

Hate meetings? You need them more than you think, says Sally Feldman

Eighteen men have won an equal pay award against a Welsh university after claiming they had been paid less than their female colleagues.

Marking boycott suspended as union warns accepting deal would represent a ‘damaging defeat’

Survey finds earnings fluctuate by department and wages fail to reflect hours worked

Cardiff Metropolitan University has been criticised for imposing “bizarre” new contract terms on its professors.

California institution is first university to hire its own online encyclopedia editor in residence

Universities can improve their procedures by studying themselves instead of others, says Stephen Yorkstone

It’s misguided to think the tactic used in 2006 will succeed in today’s altered environment, says Paul Curran

Imperial College London ‘acted reasonably’ in sacking of geneticist who was harassed by Philippe Froguel

The University and College Union has agreed to postpone its planned boycott of marking after employers made a 2 per cent pay offer for next year.

Around 900 people have signed a petition calling for the University of Dundee to stop “unnecessary job cuts” at the institution

Lecturers who take part in a proposed marking boycott later this month could have 100 per cent of their pay docked, universities have warned.

Four-fifths of institutions fail to release details on how v-c salary was set

Decline in German professors’ pay over a century

As lecturers in the UK prepare for the UCU’s marking boycott, US campuses are experiencing a surge of unionisation

Nearly 60 per cent of black and minority ethnic higher education staff and students questioned for a survey feel they have been discriminated against

Many lecturers will not even consider the ‘nuclear option’ of boycotting marking in the pay dispute, says Bill Ashraf

Good communication is vital when dealing with allegations of harassment, says Luke Brunning

Efficiency task forces told to seek savings in radical changes to practices

What’s behind the big rises for vice-chancellors? Plus, academic pay across the UK

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Canterbury Christ Church University declines to disclose reasons for departure to Robin Baker upon ‘loss of office’

Tribunal rules that academic’s post was genuinely redundant

Letters asks UCU and Ucea to resolve differences

Black academics claim they are viewed as ‘outsiders’ and hindered in career advancement

Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman on the subject’s colour line

Union members have called for a prominent critic of higher education policy to be returned to work after he was suspended by the University of Warwick.

The perils of life on a contract with no guarantee of work

But university rejects claim suspension relates to activism

New book explores challenges female academics at Cambridge face on route to top

Former Imperial College lecturer claims low student satisfaction scores led to her dismissal

Scottish union angry that current dispute not on agenda

Teaching professionals who work unpaid overtime put in an extra 12 hours a week on average – the highest of any profession, a new study claims.

Below-inflation rise could prompt richer institutions to offer enhanced local deals, expert warns

Scholars dismayed by suggestion that those not deemed ‘excellent academics’ will lose their jobs

By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed