Bill Rammell to step down as University of Bedfordshire v-c Former higher education minister will leave in December to seek consultancy and advisory positions By Jack Grove 6 November
Brexit Party scholar: quite a few academics are secret Brexiteers Would-be Brexit Party MP Kevin Yuill says he is encouraged by support for Leave party among staff and students By Jack Grove 6 November
Turkish academics sound alarm over gender segregation plans Presidential push for women’s universities accompanied by scrapping of gender action plan by regulator By David Matthews 6 November
Catalan protests spark debate over role of universities Barcelona academic says universities should take more neutral stance, but exiled scholar says Spain’s actions ‘undermine’ European values By Ellie Bothwell 6 November
Widening participation should include those with a criminal record Politicians are culpable for restricting student loans for prisoners, but universities need to be less wary of released offenders, says Nick Hillman By Nick Hillman 6 November
UCU leader: strikes coming as staff are ‘burnt out and leaving sector’ V-c warns pension and pay strikes will damage whole sector but union members believe experience shows industrial action will force change By Anna McKie 5 November
UCU announces eight days of strikes, starting late November Staff will walk out at 60 universities starting from 25 November By Anna McKie 5 November
MPs call for action on ‘threats’ to UK academia from autocracies Foreign Affairs Committee hears report of academics in UK being bugged as they discussed Russia By John Morgan 5 November
Impact agenda ‘enables climate change scholar-activists’ Philosopher and Extinction Rebellion campaigner highlights ‘genuine synergies’ between academia and activism By Ellie Bothwell 5 November
Why shouldn’t the UK’s Darpa be within UKRI? Conservative mistrust of the existing research funding system demands a re-examination of its uneasy compromises, says John Womersley By John Womersley 5 November
Government trust in universities ‘diminished’, says EUA head Michael Murphy fears universities are now seen as being in ‘perpetual opposition’ by politicians By David Matthews 4 November
Academic lost research contacts as Facebook deleted page Geographer Maddy Thompson warns scholars against relying on social network, as Facebook deletes then reinstates account By Anna McKie 4 November
