Management and governance

Baroness Amos leaves London institution after issuing warning about its finances

New twist in case which triggered departure of vice-chancellor and management dean

Former deputy Liberal leader to assume the reins from Gareth Evans

Institution hit by 41 per cent budget reduction pins hopes on reducing administrative and academic duplication

More must be done to understand and help students who register for courses but then fade into the ether, says Bret Stephenson

Suspended vice-chancellor Richard Davies and dean Marc Clement now dismissed following investigations

A Times Higher Education survey bears out the growing difficulty of finding time for research

Summer is upon northern hemisphere academics. But its cherished traditional identity as a time for intensive research is being challenged by the increasing obligations around teaching and administration that often crowd out research entirely during term time. So is the 40/40/20 workload model still sustainable? Respondents to a THE survey suggest not. Nick Mayo hears why

Calls for critical thinking from their students are rarely reflected in academics’ own writing or institutional behaviour, says Alex Wright

Leiden University acted unlawfully, a court has ruled, in using anonymous letter to discredit an applicant for a professorship

Law dean calls Amy Wax’s views ‘repugnant’ but does not answer demands for her removal

Evolutionary processes are slow, but University of Oxford research shows the scheme is improving gender equality, says Pavel Ovseiko

Universities must draw up agreements with local partners that have the public voice at their heart, says Richard Brabner

Ruskin College denies allegations of ‘victimisation’ of UCU members

Providers squabble over whether to relax rules for university colleges or jettison the category altogether

State’s budget crisis seen as highlighting growing doubts about lawmakers’ confidence in the value of knowledge

Investigation launched following Dominic Shellard’s departure highlights a disturbing example of how things can go wrong, says John Coyne

Paying all governors could cost around £12 million across English sector, suggests paper by former GSM London CEO

Facilitated meetings can encourage early admissions of guilt from perpetrators and provide recognition of victims’ experiences, says Clare McGlynn

All modern academics know that it’s publish or perish, but is regular publication a gateway or a barrier to groundbreaking scholarship? Simon Baker assesses the data on the relationship between research volume and quality and asks which, if either, should be prioritised

Human beings can only work at full capacity for so long before they become incapable of doing any work at all, says an anonymous university employee

Review chair’s comments on ‘discretionary’ funding raise disturbing questions, say Mark E. Smith, Sarah Randall-Paley and Andrew McConnell

We must create spaces, resources and communities where individuals and groups can achieve optimal health through everyday activities, says Alan Cromlish

Independent review finds college's actions breached data protection law, as well as going against its own values

Starting again from scratch every October causes no end of stress, mix-ups and wasted time, says one hourly paid lecturer

Formulating and implementing a strategic plan is core to the modern university leader’s job description. But amid complaints that such documents are vacuous, generic and irrelevant to the wider community, John Ross asks how the process can be improved

Crowdsourcing a new configuration for the University of South Australia boosted brainpower and perhaps even institutional loyalty, says David Lloyd

Most fervent opponents of dropping requirement for Australian universities to conduct research employ large numbers of teaching-only academics

OfS investigation followed Dominic Shellard’s departure, with university admitting failure on oversight of leadership, ‘in particular the v-c’

‘Irresistible’ network technology raises threat level from crooks and spooks, says Jeff Bleich

With such wide disagreements in grading, the research excellence framework’s gravity for careers is unjustifiable, says Philip Moriarty

Data on more than 19,000 institutions show Europe lags behind leading anglophone sectors on female leadership

Leeds accused of attempting to extend control of central management by ending practice of selecting heads of school from within the faculty

University leaders more likely to have attended Oxford or Cambridge compared with five years ago, but also to have gone to a comprehensive school

Sir Ian Diamond reportedly did not trigger his 12-month notice period until his departure from the university

Governing body gambit torpedoes court case but further isolates academic senate

It is not enough for UK universities with charitable status merely to conduct teaching and research, say Nicola Dandridge and Helen Stephenson

Promotion criteria requiring top researchers to also be good teachers and managers undermine the nature of universities, says Andrew Oswald

Overseas branch campuses have mushroomed in the past two decades, but with the risks larger than initially assumed and the returns less certain, stories of abandoned ventures have begun to mount. Ellie Bothwell asks whether the model still has a future 

Teesside’s Leading Roles project uses stage techniques to train university staff in handling ‘challenging conversations’ and conflict, write Sharon Paterson, Paul Hessey and Mike Rogers

Running a university and composing music both involve ‘strategic planning’, says Roderick Watkins, composer of the ‘very dark, very violent’ Juniper Tree

Gradual changes to lifestyles will not save the planet. Universities need to go beyond Cambridge's recent lead and think bigger, says Peter Harper

University chooses ‘private sector partner’ to deliver project

The controversy over a Harvard dean’s defence of Harvey Weinstein is no reason to disregard the core academic mission, says Sandro Galea 

Western ‘settler’ nations such as Canada and Australia are wrestling with how to redress historical injustices visited on their native populations. One proposal is for universities to embrace Indigenous knowledge. But what does that mean in practice? Will it achieve its aims? And where does it leave science? Matthew Reisz considers the arguments

University acknowledges that drop in student recruitment has brought ‘financial challenges’

Institutions Down Under do not have the resources to lead the world across the board, says former vice-chancellor

School’s new student intake fell by nearly 40 per cent in just two years

Survival depends on institutional buy-in to a fundamental questioning of operating models and cost structures, says Angus Laing

Hepi report ties increase to mounting workloads and performance management

Dean was removed following opposition to his role in Harvey Weinstein’s legal team

Crucial cash flow in jeopardy as regulator scrutinises bush institutions’ urban partners

Home of United Nations court and Dutch government has no university of its own – but Leiden’s outpost ‘could grow to 10,000 or 20,000’ students

Successful publish-or-perish operators should look in the mirror before writing their next diatribe about marketisation, says Mike Marinetto

Shift in council membership may be factor in escalating vice-chancellor pay

Recent controversies in Australia over vice-chancellors’ pay, Ramsay Centre funding and the role of academic presses have raised questions about whether university boards have too few – or, perhaps, too many – members from scholarly backgrounds. John Ross chairs the discussion

V-c who left school at 16 before entering university without A levels says university’s social mission is irreplaceable

In a managerial era, universities are challenging the traditional idea that only individuals need protecting, say Otto Hüther and Georg Krücken

The unfettered pursuit of knowledge is every university’s core value – even if management doesn’t always see it that way, says Dennis Hayes

Dutch universities are conspicuously and consistently successful. Yet their funding is declining and their embrace of internationalism has put them on a collision course with the populist right. John Morgan assesses the mood in Leiden, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Maastricht