Management and governance

Lord Wharton set to succeed Sir Michael Barber at helm of English sector regulator

Mass reliance on the traditional 50-minute lecture format will soon be a thing of the past, says David Maguire

Union branch say allowing president and chief financial officer to stay sends a ‘terrible message to staff’

Higher education consultancy to continue operating independently under its own name

More than 50 rectors with no international publications continuously tweet pro-government messages, reflecting country’s waning academic freedom

Accusations led to disciplinary hearings for both president and chief financial officer

Academics have long grappled with the strains that job scarcity and the mobility imperative impose on their families. But might the experience of mass remote working finally offer a viable solution, asks Jack Grove

In handling cases, UK universities must clarify the burden of evidence, better train adjudicators and publish incidence statistics, says one survivor

Group’s regional credentials boosted in latest instance of institutional jockeying in and out of representative networks

London institution says it has ‘fully accepted’ recommendations of inquiry into senior staff behaviour

Dean at University of Colorado Boulder plans to replace tenured and tenure-track faculty with instructors, but critics say the move tells students that ‘their education doesn’t really matter’

Government pressure found causing harm beyond the loss of foreign partners

Rurally based university had faced financial and regulatory challenges coinciding with Andrew Vann’s sabbatical

Focus on revenue and ignorance of reporting obligations ‘provide opportunities for corruption’, watchdog finds

First black president pushes Virginia university to overcome its name and reputation

Students are lobbying for extensions to the pass-fail grading system that was widely adopted earlier this year, but most universities are proving less lenient than they were in spring

Change may come from unexpected quarters, analysts warn, as crisis and Canberra upset the apple cart

With global warming a priority for the next US president, the International Universities Climate Alliance can lead the academic response, says Ian Jacobs

‘Students and their parents felt they were promised one thing, and they ended up receiving something else,’ says Edinburgh principal

Analysts say industrial solutions must be adopted to wean universities off their dependence on casual staff

Panel warns that action is needed to tackle excessive competition and casualisation if research careers are to remain attractive

Unpublished Australian data show that number of regular support staff positions has shrunk while executive roles have expanded massively

Universities UK guidance says institutions must introduce training on concepts such as microaggressions and white privilege

University careers attract intellectually curious people who want to make a difference. But Donna Swarthout has been disillusioned once too often

Institutional agility in pandemic shows why heavy-handed regulation is a mistake, says Ecuadorean university president

Observers concerned by lack of coordinated effort to tackle populism and its causes

Pre-arrival checks and continuous monitoring of student health are replicable elements of China’s successful approach, say Yingru Li and Jane Duckett

The experience of Monash University suggests that staff members’ greatest mental health needs are not necessarily obvious, says Kim Cornish

Survey finds that university presidents in North America are much less likely to feel ready to cope with the crisis this academic year than those in Asia and Oceania

As appointment panels seek leaders with more diverse backgrounds, non-academics can expect more of a hearing

Yogesh Tyagi suspended by government after he and executive council try to appoint rival candidates for registrar

While the pandemic may force an end to open-plan academic spaces, Australian forum hears that ‘empty glass boxes’ are not the answer

Rationalising online and in-person offerings and establishing mutually beneficial partnerships will be crucial, say Michael Braun and Scott Latham

Communications experts at leading universities say Covid-19 could be ‘make or break’ for institutions’ prestige 

Technological know-how and compassion key in the post-Covid era, leaders say

THE data reveal the voter base for universities with growing reputations and their more established neighbours

Universities should create more strategic partnerships with the commercial world to boost their public perception, argues Rupert Younger  

Regional Australian university under cloud as it argues the toss over transparency commitments

Belinda Robinson leaves to focus on board roles

Female academics, especially mothers, face the double challenge of patriarchy and neoliberal management

Universities urged to take opportunity to modernise, as government’s next strategic plan set to boost research and technology

Appointments at Hong Kong’s most prestigious university come despite critics’ call for more consultation

Seven-figure pay packets raise questions over strategic leadership in year when universities’ business model crashed

Oldest state-funded military college has history of venerating Confederacy

Scant feedback raises transparency concerns over Australian regulator’s compliance activities

An Australian university history brimming with modern-day parallels shows how collectivism helped forge the sector

The establishment of online learning and the routine use of email were long overdue, argues Ali Adnan Mohammed

The pandemic underlines the need for executives to be instilled with a more radical approach to sustainability, say Lars Moratis and Frans Melissen

Former culture secretary and BBC director to succeed Sir Nigel Carrington

Former Australian vice-chancellor says gains for women in recent decades ‘cannot be lost’

Staff criticise proposals to shutter Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Institute of Latin American Studies

Done properly, teaching in front of a webcam is more effective than teaching from behind a visor, says an anonymous academic

The BJP’s permeation of every aspect of higher education will hamper India’s ambitions to be a world leader in research and innovation, says Aditya Sharma

Neoliberal administrators’ policing of institutional reputations and academic colleagues’ condemnation of dissenting voices on issues such as race and gender have led to claims that scholars are losing their ability to engage in free enquiry and open debate. But is academic freedom really the operative concept in the controversies that arise? John Ross probes a highly contested debate

Civilised adults should not have to demonstrate that they can stand up to bullying before being offered a job, says an anonymous academic 

Living in a parallel universe of perfect systems and obedient citizens could blow up in vice-chancellors’ faces like Chernobyl, warns Craig Brandist 

The country’s deep belief in cooperation coexists with a quiet opportunism about recruitment and funding, say Tim Seidenschnur and Georg Krücken 

Vice-chancellor faces fresh charges of acting outside authority after old allegations deemed not ‘material’

The economics are murky but the damage that closing departments will do to universities’ missions is crystal clear, says Peter Tregear

Chinese universities’ pursuit of excellence with socialist characteristics aims to put them in the company of Harvard and Oxford, says Futao Huang