Is it time for UCU members to go on indefinite strike?
Jo Grady’s more gradualist approach to industrial action offers better prospects for success, say Jak Peake and Adam Ozanne
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Rice, with path-breaking leader, eyes new directions
Haitian-born DesRoches aims to grow enrolment and diversity, boost research and create new global footprint
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New year predictions: what does 2023 have in store for universities?
With hostility from the 91茄子 Office over international student numbers, membership of Horizon Europe slipping away and heavy demands placed?on institutions by regulators, UK university staff will be...
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Lecturer with MS takes Surrey to industrial tribunal
A disabled lecturer whose current contract was more than halved two years after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis has taken his university to an industrial tribunal. George Mowat-Brown, 51, a...
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New Zealand signs association deal for Horizon Europe
European Commission hails first association of a highly industrialised country outside of Europe
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Indefinite strike or ‘escalating’ action? The choice facing UCU
Long-running divisions brought back to the fore at crucial period in UK pay negotiations
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Warwick's industry turns profit from academic expertise
Tony Tysome and Harriet Swain go in search of the Midlands, a region that is busy bridging an east-west divide, increasing participation rates and developing links The University of Warwick is...
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UK extends Horizon Europe funding guarantee for third time
Stopgap solution will run out in April, when symbolic deadline for resolving a wider EU-UK dispute over Northern Ireland will present itself
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A year on, edX sale to 2U leaves both sides struggling
Year after MIT and Harvard’s abandonment of non-profit online course platform, universities slow in finding promised new beneficial mission, while for-profit buyer sheds staff and loses market value
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UCU split on plans to call ‘indefinite strike’ from February
Union leader Jo Grady?distances herself from higher education committee decision as key pay negotiations begin
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Scots explore foreign ideas for industry initiative
Academics and industrialists are joining together in a bid to make Scotland a European leader in commercialising research in science and technology. Both sectors have given broad support to a draft...
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Concerns over dozens of papers from Marseilles medical institute
Plos puts warnings on almost 50 papers after alleged reuse of ethical approvals, undeclared conflicts of interest and publication rates equivalent to an article every three?days ?
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Students priced out of housing market in Australian cities
Independent housing ‘moderately to severely unaffordable’, as locals opt for alternatives
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Practising conference presentations is vital – even for native speakers
Overloaded slides, peculiar body language and speech that is too quick, slow, quiet or relentless are all easily fixed, says Brian Bloch
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Brexit is hurting UK innovation
German-style political stability and long-term science funding could help mitigate the damage, say Zach Meyers and John Springford