Employment

New contracts at Harvard and NYU seen reflecting new determination and political and economic pressures of Biden and Covid

Workforce report co-authored by Baroness Wolf also finds that number of teaching-only staff in UK grew by 80 per cent in 12-year period

Non-Korean academics must often accept ‘dead-end jobs’ and isolation among native colleagues

Undergraduates and postgraduates express sympathy for lecturers who have also struggled with shift online during pandemic

Intellectual property rights are likely to rest with lecturers despite university ownership claims, say legal experts

Short-term contracts are leading researchers to chase more secure roles in less heralded universities, says Cardiff Met vice-chancellor

UCU to reballot 42 branches that narrowly missed turnout threshold

A$40 million repayments flagged so far the tip of the iceberg, union says

Once rare, now commonplace, use of private companies to hire new presidents coming at large cost to US universities, research team finds

While some disciplines naturally have older researchers, more job security is needed to attract young, experts say  

Staff at 58 universities set to walk out

University and College Union general secretary says sector leaders who focused on turnout were ‘not listening to a consistent message that staff have been delivering to them’

Experts say exhaustion and worry over disruption to students hit appetite for industrial action but shouldn’t mask the unhappiness across sector

Combined with results of pensions ballot, union has mandate for walkouts at less than four in 10 institutions polled

Higher education minister says circumstances of philosopher’s departure ‘absolutely appalling’

Majority of respondents to major UK survey show signs of depression but fear that asking for support will harm career

Ombudsman pledges crackdown if institutions fail to come clean

Fresh ‘wage theft’ claims arise as Australian legislation to combat casualisation fails to scratch the surface

Elsevier vice-president calls for manifesto on well-being signed by institutions so researchers are not seen as ‘paper-producing machines’

Australian inquiry also recommends new national strategy, top-up funding and better union entry rights

Anming Hu was acquitted in court prosecution under Trump crackdown on academic scientists with China ties

UCU leader Jo Grady claims action is needed as ‘staff at breaking point’ but employers say latest 1.5 per cent pay offer is ‘fair and meaningful’

Move bolsters fears of political attacks on US higher education and prompts AAUP to consider boycott

Peter Ridd judgment may encourage universities to hide behind ‘confidentiality’ veil, transparency advocate warns

Union queries necessity, as sector braces for the loss of hundreds more positions

Scientists less likely to risk switching jobs despite rising fatigue, flagging morale and gender equity going backwards

Marathon legal battle by Italy’s lettori for equal rights may soon end after European Commission’s intervention

Loss of vital expertise piles more pressure and workloads on those left behind, including academics

Institutional leaders ‘don’t listen’, leaving line managers to provide little more than ‘palliative care’

Sociologist criticised by MPs says that he plans to appeal against termination

Final two staff members facing axe allowed to leave on more generous terms following long-running industrial action and international boycott

Female researchers who socialise less with male colleagues less likely to feel supported in the workplace

Lecturer in modern gender history only required ‘until the substantive postholder returns from maternity leave, or in the event of her resignation’

Union members at 152 UK institutions asked to walk out for fourth time in little over three years

Valentina Azarova declines to take human rights position, but CAUT suspends censure and claims academic freedom win

Mix of survey and employment data offered as caution to those blaming high costs on administrative bloat

FoI requests suggest some UK institutions have spent just a few hundred pounds per academic over the past six years

Permanent rather than casual staff now being targeted, report suggests, but expert queries data underpinning the analysis

Acknowledgment comes days after apology from Melbourne

Lisa Tilley cites impact on staff and students of ‘proximity’ to former department head’s ‘far-right followers’, plus ‘sickening environment’

Proposed redundancies target science, engineering and IT – disciplines supposedly favoured by funding reforms

Analysis of Australian job advertisements points to recovery, particularly in non-traditional research

Scholars who have stayed at home concerned about ‘double standards’ on salary, funding and promotion

At partisan moment, governing regents pursue new processes allowing for firing of tenured faculty

Whitlam and HECS fostered a ‘social psychology’ of indifference towards higher education, Australasian conference hears

Course cut critics castigate Australian institution for using data selectively, as sociologists elsewhere watch on nervously

Union members overwhelmingly back action even as number of compulsory redundancies slashed to two

University insists historian Garrett Felber was let go for failing to communicate effectively with department chair

Policy revamp aims to tackle gender inequality

Easing of pandemic a moment for many campus presidents to take a break and others to be pushed out

Publishing a well-received paper could boost a scholar’s income by $13,500, says US study

Pandemic drove down wages at two-thirds of institutions, AAUP annual survey finds

Sizeable number of staff members struggled over course of pandemic and are suffering from chronic stress and exhaustion, researchers say

Hundreds of roles at risk as fresh wave of coronavirus restrictions sweeps across country

University council backs shuttering despite widespread opposition

Four different datasets, four different stories: Australian university staffing statistics ‘impossible to reconcile’

North-west institution is second university to be ‘greylisted’ by UCU in three months

Contractual agreement guarantees associate lecturers pay rise and annual salaries, following recent delay and five years of negotiations

As row over redundancies shows no sign of easing, academics see deeper-rooted problems of mismanagement

Covid redundancy terms include non-disclosure and non-disparagement obligations, as corporate HR culture captures universities