Employment

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

Secret lists of preferred papers have been circulated prior to computer science meetings to help favoured scholars get ahead, says US professor

New programme for universities modelled on version that increased racial equity within NIH’s own laboratories

Scholars, fed up with decades of living from contract to contract, force government to remove video that seemed to celebrate insecurity

Australian review finds that the switch from clinical practice into the ‘sausage factory’ of academia can elevate stress levels – even among the most stressed

University accused of destroying notes from a meeting, which it says is standard practice

Universities offer many rewarding technical careers – but local populations are often oblivious of them, says Mike Hughes

Wide-ranging survey of mothers working in higher education reveals institutions’ inconsistent and often ineffective responses

Headhunters and scientists have reported waning interest in UK research roles, citing high cost of visas and healthcare as a key deterrent

Report author says increasing funding would only lead to more insecurity, and culture shift is needed instead

But author of 2012 paper on staff qualifications says it is likely to be ‘norm and expectation’ that many academics have a doctorate  

Surveys reveal widespread support among professional staff for working remotely at least some of the time

Scholars launch bid to create co-working spaces for researchers in cities around UK

Covid wave has revealed a deadly lack of welfare and job security

Almost a third of university employees globally are on contracts lasting less than two years, according to THE data

THE’s Careers Clinic series brings together the great and the good of higher education to answer a burning careers question

Employers up their offer at final negotiations but UCU says they should ‘reward the extraordinary efforts staff have made’ during Covid-19

Move online may have been green but could damage impactful research, THE’s UK Academic Salon hears

Industrial action continues despite university reducing number of planned redundancies and revising selection criteria

University and College Union ‘grey-lists’ institution, asking academics to refuse to have any dealings with it

New study by elite university group says open-ended contracts, not rolling one-year deals, should become ‘norm’ for UK research staff

Former Huddersfield lecturer claimed his mental health suffered due to increased workload of mandatory doctoral study 

Union threatens strikes and marking boycott after staff identified for redundancy based on research grant income and citation impact scores

In year before REF census, at a handful of institutions more than two-thirds of staff were reclassified 

Faculty group’s first boycott order in decade affirms pro-Israel interference, but president Meric Gertler pushes back

Union passes motion in favour of industrial action over risk to 145 staff

Senior scholars increasingly victims of gossip, muttering and insubordination, researchers say

Salary boost might be more effective than legal crackdowns in thwarting international recruiting and funding approaches, argues Oklahoma representative

Academics say its ‘unethical’ for universities to profit from work done by researchers who have since lost their jobs

Paper says machine learning method to shortlist candidates for a role reveals an employer's priorities   

Shortly after highlighting ‘game-changing’ study, tweet is pulled after critics point out the researchers involved could lose their jobs

Sector leaders acknowledge ‘errors’ but deny deliberate withholding of pay

Time extensions on tenure may be among wrong cures, US National Academies assessment suggests

Union claims new career framework could result in academics being dismissed if they do not make senior lecturer within five years, but university says sanctions will be used rarely

Leading black intellectual and activist returns to Columbia-affiliated seminary

Universities UK says increases are unaffordable for employers and risk pricing even more staff out of scheme

Authors of Leiden Manifesto and Hong Kong principles say plans to use grant income and citation scores to make redundancies is threat to responsible use of metrics around globe

Non-white women just 2.5 per cent of top earners on most research-intensive campuses

Audit finds changes were made without necessary approvals amid row over senior staff conduct

Major UK survey finds established staff much more likely to have confidence in university over progression issues

Australia’s post-Covid employment ‘circuit breaker’: casual professors, a revised 40/40/20 split and no more 18-month payouts

Increasing the share of non-tenure-track faculty has no effect on financial health of US public universities, says paper

University expresses concerns about ‘untrue statements’ but UCU remains in dark over what caused problem

Webinar hears that postdocs are being ‘deprofessionalised’ and encouraged to win grants on behalf of principal investigators

Universities and colleges are violating own policies to fire tenured faculty because of Covid-related financial troubles

Nearly half of all professors in the UK are now aged 55 or over

Universities and government dispute magnitude of sector’s losses as it braces for worse in 2021

UCU says axing health and life science researchers with the least grant income and fewest citations is ‘catastrophic error of judgement’

UCU branch demands answers after passing motion of no confidence in president and finance chief

At least 12 institutions planning to make redundancies

Vice-chancellors say they are considering what to do if members of their community refuse Covid-19 inoculation 

Union describes proposed salary freeze as an ‘insult’ but universities point to financial woes

Union branch passes motion in response to plan to axe some 60 jobs

Australian study suggests academics’ recruitment habits exacerbate their workload problems

Institutions have introduced four-day weeks during lockdowns, but scholars suspect most changes will be temporary

Growth of academics on such terms precedes pandemic and REF census

Academics at Southwest Minzu University complained of bonuses as small as 91p – or even negative awards

Author of London Met study attacks universities’ ‘empty platitudes and virtue signalling’

Vice-chancellor says feedback from first lockdown shows four-day week ‘helps improve work-life balance’

President and finance chief under pressure to resign amid anger that staff learned of allegations via the press