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David Pitt-Watson and Hari Mann believe there could be a way to settle the ongoing pensions row amicably

Programme aimed at empowering women, used in more than 35 universities, ‘unfit for an academic institution’

Walkouts at 61 universities set to go ahead as chair’s casting vote backs UUK reforms

Fourteen days of strike action set to begin on 22 February if talks fail, affecting 61 universities

‘Trained observers’ can help selection committees stamp out implicit bias against women, Europe’s biggest highest education institutions say

Senior academics express fears for younger colleagues as strike deadline looms

Jordanian-established institution has fallen short of recruitment expectations

University staff in both sectors also report deteriorating workplace conditions

Scholars claim dean-elect is unfit for office after publishing articles in journals found on Jeffrey Beall’s blacklist

Sir David Eastwood earns £90,000 as USS chair, while Dame Glynis Breakwell gets £50,000

The past year has seemed one of almost daily shocks and surprises for higher education, which THE has divulged, documented and dissected

Interventions such as women-only fellowships have improved gender balance – but some professoriates are still more than 85 per cent male

Chris Parr reveals the 25 Times Higher Education stories that received the most views during the last 12 months

Group CEO of the Universities Superannuation Scheme Bill Galvin outlines the processes and procedures involved in the pension scheme valuation

University management ‘actively misled’ union representatives and wanted to keep members ‘in the dark’, tribunal rules

With women still under-represented at the top levels of research, some see the rise of more explicit ‘affirmative action’ on gender becoming more common

Garlanded Yorkshire institution denies claims that cuts are related to financial pressures or research ambitions

Union says teaching will not resume until additional funding has arrived in university accounts

Sally Hunt offers three ways to fix the proposed USS pension reforms

Plans would ‘devastate’ members’ pensions, warns UCU after actuarial analysis

Police crack down on academics for delivering external lectures and supervising exams and PhDs at other universities, saying it breaks work permit rules

Hilary Benn also suggests that UK’s future in Horizon 2020 is not necessarily contingent on free movement

UCU says move will 'raise further questions about the priorities of senior managers'

University and College Union will ballot members on a national walkout over plans to move staff to defined contribution pension scheme

University and College Union warns Russell Group institution will struggle to raise teaching quality while cutting jobs

Broad-brush efforts to support female and ethnic minority academics will not address ‘multidimensional inequality’, says Warwick professor

Tipping point likely to be between 2020 and 2025, new demographic analysis suggests

Universities not doing enough to protect staff from harm, researchers say

In-depth examination of researchers’ career paths suggests few adhere to long-held stereotype that the young publish more

The entrepreneur and philanthropist on not going to university, student start-up mistakes and Brexit

Leading higher education professionals heading for executive teams of Australian universities

Lagging degree attainment leads to Latinos becoming stuck in middle-wage tiers of labour market, says study

Education minister sees break from Spain as a path to more ‘competition and excellence’ in hiring, firing and leadership

Jessica Johnson on the challenges of arranging maternity cover

Extended senior management survey finds that employees are extremely unhappy with the people running universities

Study finds that universities in big urban centres produce less highly cited research than institutions elsewhere

Many researchers also ‘harbour unrealistic expectations’ about academic careers

Leru says that commission’s focus should be on improving scholars’ employment prospects

Sally Hunt lambastes university employment models, which she says would be more at home in Sports Direct

UCL head warns that decision to leave European Union ‘affecting our ability to recruit and retain the very best’

A survey of 50 laureates is full of insight, warnings and the can-do attitudes powering ‘beautiful minds’

In the last two decades the number of mainland students going abroad to study has increased more than twentyfold, but what does this mean for employment, asks Ka Ho Mok

Spreading the word on social media about research can help academics get ahead, but is it too much of a distraction, asks Brooke Erin Duffy

'Saudisation' drive sees public institutions urged to hire local staff

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Universities are at least aware of the gender pay problem, says Alex Holmes, but there is still work to be done

How can higher education prepare students for jobs that do not even exist yet? asks Christina Slade

‘Drastic action’ required to fix multibillion-pound shortfall in Universities Superannuation Scheme, expert warns

New report calls for Athena SWAN awards to be rolled out in India

Scholar claims she was pressured to sign up to Higher Education Academy and did so without correct documents

Senior academics at Teesside University put at risk of redundancy as summer break gets under way

Arizona State University’s Michael Crow was the highest-earning leader in 2015-16

Reinstatement of professor over age discrimination must force rethink over ‘unfair’ retirement rules, say campaigners

Sector figures say government proposals fail to guarantee future for academics based in the UK

Hefce tells English universities that confidentiality agreements should be ‘the exception rather than the norm’

Peter Cherry knew something was wrong when other applicants arrived in Madrid with several suitcases of documents

Publication of data showing long-term graduate earnings by discipline has huge potential to improve higher education, says Jack Britton

Alex Holmes was surprised by the reaction of some of his colleagues when he took shared parental leave

Sector-wide initiative led by Science Council seeks to address ‘overlooked’ part of academic workforce

Researchers have triggered another vote over rules they believe to be ‘unlawful’ and ‘unfair’