Average Russell Group vice-chancellor pay package hits ?400,000 Average salary rises 3.5 per cent to ?327,000, with Cambridge’s Deborah Prentice topping pay list Patrick Jack 1月 2日
New Year Honours 2025: damehood for ex-UUK president Buckingham Former Brunel vice-chancellor alongside former Cambridge leader and King’s vice-president Patrick Jack 12月 30日
CNRS researchers resist call to impose teaching obligations Divide between scientists in research institutes and teacher-researchers at universities in spotlight after op-eds Emily Dixon 12月 27日
York and St Andrews latest to post multimillion-pound deficits Leicester, Surrey, Brunel and Hull also report losses in financial accounts for 2023-24 Patrick Jack 12月 24日
UCU members ‘sceptical’ strike ballot will meet turnout threshold Union members fear industrial action is ‘tone deaf’ amid large-scale redundancies across the sector Juliette Rowsell 12月 23日
The Gregg Wallace furore shines a light on UK academia’s prejudice Academics are only revealing their own biases if they believe the television presenter’s behaviour represents working-class values, says Joe Baden Joe Baden 12月 23日
Students most frequent perpetrators of academic staff harassment Of respondents to Swedish survey who reported experiencing threats or harassment, half said a student was responsible Emily Dixon 12月 22日
Speed up international student visas, German rectors urge Improved visa processing among measures proposed by umbrella groups to attract and retain international students Emily Dixon 12月 21日
Finland downgrades MDPI and Frontiers – will others follow suit? Decision to downgrade 271 journals on quality and operating model concerns sparks debate Jack Grove 12月 20日
Russell Group ‘not immune’ as King’s, Nottingham post deficits King’s College London reported an operating deficit of ?19 million once the impact from pensions and donations are excluded Patrick Jack 12月 20日
Migrant students who challenge UK universities deserve a better deal Drawn-out complaints procedures that aren’t resolved before visas expire are unethical – and a poor advertisement for UK HE, says Sanaz Raji Sanaz Raji 12月 20日
Bolton and Uclan given regulator clearance to rebrand Renaming approved by Office for Students despite acceptance that proposed new monikers might cause confusion among international students Jack Grove 12月 19日