Scrap plans for evening teaching shifts, college told Ravensbourne’s plans to stretch the teaching timetable to 7.30pm triggers staff revolt Jack Grove 7月 11日
Academics ‘often don’t trust other researchers’ data’ Task force established by government to explore UK open-data landscape calls for greater efforts to ensure data quality John Elmes 7月 10日
University tells entire professoriate to reapply for their jobs Senior academics at Teesside University put at risk of redundancy as summer break gets under way Jack Grove 7月 7日
Merkel’s party pledges to push Germany into R&D spending lead CDU wants country to invest 3.5 per cent of GDP in research and development – more than twice that of UK David Matthews 7月 6日
Poland steps up efforts to track graduate employment Students embarking on degrees can now find out the likely returns on their different options Matthew Reisz 7月 6日
First UK-EU branch campus post-Brexit under consideration King’s College London and TU Dresden ‘Transcampus’ aims to strengthen ties between UK and Germany Ellie Bothwell 7月 6日
Oxford tribunal rules against compulsory retirement rule Reinstatement of professor over age discrimination must force rethink over ‘unfair’ retirement rules, say campaigners Jack Grove 7月 6日
Nicola Dandridge to be CEO of England’s Office for Students Experienced sector figure to leave UUK post in September for powerful new regulator John Morgan 7月 5日
TEF 2017: Social class and the TEF: a full picture of participation? A look at the split metrics suggests that some universities may have benefited from having a more advantaged student cohort Simon Baker 7月 5日
IFS: English student loan changes ‘hit poorer graduates hardest’ Threshold freeze bites while poorest graduate ‘with largest debts’ of £57,000 on average, researchers warn John Morgan 7月 5日
Commission report calls on EU to double research spending Major study on successor to Horizon 2020 also suggests including Canada and Australia in European programmes David Matthews 7月 3日
Universities minister says UK vice-chancellors are paid too much Jo Johnson takes aim at Southampton’s leader in outspoken attack on ‘sharp increase’ in salaries Jack Grove 6月 30日
