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Support staff to remain on single salary spine with a bespoke model set up to allow institution to compete for top early career researchers

The general secretary of the University and College Union has called for unity as the organisation approaches its 10^th anniversary.

Survey details the financial and personal costs of casualisation in higher education

More than 200 jobs could go at the University of Exeter as part of plans to save ?25 million

The couple sacked over alleged leaks had their appeal thrown out by the University of Bolton last week

Amanda Goodall and Margit Osterloh explore the causes of and solutions to the dearth of women at the top of UK academia

When his university found evidence of a ?2,000 gender pay gap, it knew what was the right thing to do - and it did it, says David Wilkinson

Continental system is critical to stop drain to US, Patrick Aebischer argues

But those on low pay to be offered up to 2.65 per cent, says Ucea

UCU reacts by pledging to instruct lawyers to fight decision

The misapplication of private sector HR techniques harms individuals without raising performance, says Rob?Briner

Around 40 jobs could be at risk at the University of Manchester after it announced plans to drop longstanding opposition to compulsory redundancies

Carol Hay and John Kaag make one final heroic push in the final straight of the academic year

A tale of quiet devotion to scholarship seems all the more poignant given the relentless nature of today¡¯s academy, says Rachel Carey

Two trade unions are urging the University of Bolton to overturn its decision to dismiss two employees for allegedly leaking information to the press

A Scottish university broke the law when it let staff on fixed-term contracts go without consulting unions, the Supreme Court has ruled

Employers have called on unions to ¡°consider carefully the real value¡± of a 0.9 per cent pay offer for university employees.

An undergraduate taught by the recently dismissed University of Bolton lecturer Damien Markey has described how the decision has affected students.

Benjamin Poore calls on universities to reject plans likely to make hourly paid lecturers¡¯ lot poorer and more precarious

Extravagant claims for the right of scholars to say almost anything endanger support for the principle, says Martyn?Hammersley

The president of Imperial College London has spoken directly about the suicide of Stefan Grimm for the first time in public.

Staff at the University of Surrey may strike later this term over plans to axe up to 100 jobs.

¡®Academic citizenship¡¯ is the key to moving up the career ladder, argues Richard J. Williams

Critics of the University of Warwick¡¯s TeachHigher division also wary of UK-wide franchise

People are right to believe that revealing mental health problems at work will do more harm than good, says an academic living with depression

A private place to work is much more than just an office, says Shahidha Bari

Five academics detail how taking leave of the grind has turbocharged their work ¨C but can everyone get a break?

A hearing into the ¡®needless¡¯ death of a professor at Imperial College London has ruled that he took his own life by asphyxiating himself

91ÇÑ×Ó¡¯s Best University Workplace Survey 2015 reveals concerns over class sizes and other issues in the wake of higher tuition fees

The former leader of the University of York on how his new role¡¯s focus on technology made the decision an easy one

Did rises for vice-chancellors outpace those of academic staff, and did the REF swell the salaries of star researchers? Jack Grove rings up the benefits accrued

Imperial is to undertake a review of how it uses performance metrics for staff after the death of one of its academics

Union says branch secretary and wife both deny any involvement in leaking stories

A new paper contends that some academics adopt mildly rebellious views to look more sexually alluring

Top academics will be increasingly reluctant to come to the UK, says Hirono, who is being forced to quit Britain despite her permanent post

Academics complain after ¡®technical difficulties¡¯ delay responses and modelling tool

91ÇÑ×Ó Office under fire over ¡®indefensible¡¯ appeal forcing international relations expert to quit UK

Emma Rees investigates research where selfhood and scholarship are intertwined

European Court of Human Rights rules in favour of a whistleblowing Latvian academic

Where will the axe fall? Up to 165 jobs may be lost as enrolments tumble

Academics have been left fearing for their jobs at a university politics department after management announced a restructure

As a consultation launches, employees consider the impact of the USS reforms

The Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey is being abused, according to one former university employee

Be open about your health, an academic advises. It could be the surest way to get the workplace support you need

FX Plus given ?105,000 to encourage cost-sharing copycats at universities

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Deifying young fashion designers does them no favours and slights the many who make their work possible, says Sally Feldman

Hakim Adi urges early career researchers at first meeting of Black Doctoral Network UK to be resilient when facing difficulties

Sir Ian Diamond¡¯s efficiencies report endorses the shift from incremental pay rises to service-related rewards

Becoming an academic is the third most desirable job for Britons and is seen as more attractive than being a Hollywood film star

Soas conference discusses building a network of groups fighting for fair pay and conditions for casual teaching staff

Aberystwyth University will run voluntary severance scheme despite having already spent millions on restructuring

The results show that most people in the sector enjoy their work and their colleagues, but some are happier than others

Picking up professor¡¯s tab for defending himself in tribunal adds ?66,000 to university¡¯s expenses arising out of suspension

A wide range of essential under-the-radar tasks sustain academic culture, but who will perform them in an increasingly careerist academy?

An academic¡¯s conviction as a paedophile was kept under wraps in the 1990s. Would a cover-up happen today, asks Geoffrey Alderman

Staff at pre-1992 universities have voted by two to one in favour of accepting plans to end the country¡¯s largest private final salary pension scheme

University says there are ¡®lessons to be learned¡¯ from professor¡¯s tribunal

Some early career scholars feel there is not enough support for academics who reach out, say Richard Watermeyer and Jamie Lewis

Calls to sack Robert Lambert would deprive us of academic expertise, argues Stefano Bonino