Employment

Senior scholars increasingly victims of gossip, muttering and insubordination, researchers say

Salary boost might be more effective than legal crackdowns in thwarting international recruiting and funding approaches, argues Oklahoma representative

Academics say its ‘unethical’ for universities to profit from work done by researchers who have since lost their jobs

Paper says machine learning method to shortlist candidates for a role reveals an employer's priorities   

Shortly after highlighting ‘game-changing’ study, tweet is pulled after critics point out the researchers involved could lose their jobs

Sector leaders acknowledge ‘errors’ but deny deliberate withholding of pay

Time extensions on tenure may be among wrong cures, US National Academies assessment suggests

Union claims new career framework could result in academics being dismissed if they do not make senior lecturer within five years, but university says sanctions will be used rarely

Leading black intellectual and activist returns to Columbia-affiliated seminary

Universities UK says increases are unaffordable for employers and risk pricing even more staff out of scheme

Authors of Leiden Manifesto and Hong Kong principles say plans to use grant income and citation scores to make redundancies is threat to responsible use of metrics around globe

Non-white women just 2.5 per cent of top earners on most research-intensive campuses

Audit finds changes were made without necessary approvals amid row over senior staff conduct

Major UK survey finds established staff much more likely to have confidence in university over progression issues

Australia’s post-Covid employment ‘circuit breaker’: casual professors, a revised 40/40/20 split and no more 18-month payouts

Increasing the share of non-tenure-track faculty has no effect on financial health of US public universities, says paper

University expresses concerns about ‘untrue statements’ but UCU remains in dark over what caused problem

Webinar hears that postdocs are being ‘deprofessionalised’ and encouraged to win grants on behalf of principal investigators

Universities and colleges are violating own policies to fire tenured faculty because of Covid-related financial troubles

Nearly half of all professors in the UK are now aged 55 or over

Universities and government dispute magnitude of sector’s losses as it braces for worse in 2021

UCU says axing health and life science researchers with the least grant income and fewest citations is ‘catastrophic error of judgement’

UCU branch demands answers after passing motion of no confidence in president and finance chief

At least 12 institutions planning to make redundancies

Vice-chancellors say they are considering what to do if members of their community refuse Covid-19 inoculation 

Union describes proposed salary freeze as an ‘insult’ but universities point to financial woes

Union branch passes motion in response to plan to axe some 60 jobs

Australian study suggests academics’ recruitment habits exacerbate their workload problems

Institutions have introduced four-day weeks during lockdowns, but scholars suspect most changes will be temporary

Growth of academics on such terms precedes pandemic and REF census

Academics at Southwest Minzu University complained of bonuses as small as 91p – or even negative awards

Author of London Met study attacks universities’ ‘empty platitudes and virtue signalling’

Vice-chancellor says feedback from first lockdown shows four-day week ‘helps improve work-life balance’

President and finance chief under pressure to resign amid anger that staff learned of allegations via the press

Union branch say allowing president and chief financial officer to stay sends a ‘terrible message to staff’

Accusations led to disciplinary hearings for both president and chief financial officer

The case of Linnéa Taylor, who was fired by Lund University but fought back through courts, raises questions over misconduct investigations

University of Manchester records highest number of job losses during coronavirus crisis, according to Freedom of Information responses

London institution says it has ‘fully accepted’ recommendations of inquiry into senior staff behaviour

Campaigners claim forcing staff to reapply for jobs with lower salaries will damage Imperial and leave institution vulnerable

High-profile figures criticise university’s plans for large cuts to arts and humanities, which it says are necessary because of the pandemic and low student numbers

Analysts say industrial solutions must be adopted to wean universities off their dependence on casual staff

Unpublished Australian data show that number of regular support staff positions has shrunk while executive roles have expanded massively

Snowballing international earnings buttressed universities’ wealth ahead of this year’s crisis while relegating federal government to minority funder status

Some find it difficult to make decisions on their own off-campus, survey suggests

Survey suggests most of those giving help to colleagues feel undervalued

Leading psychologist issues stinging criticism of university treatment of employee mental health

Some universities acknowledge ‘errors’ totalling millions of dollars but deny deliberate ‘wage theft’

Australian survey finds little change in morale, workload or fatigue, but next year’s results could tell a different story

STEM-focused university warns that looming fee and subsidy changes may sharpen pandemic’s bite

Critics says that 60, or even 65, is too young to end an academic career

University denies impropriety, as faculty groups urge transparent review

University is also told to pay Paul Ewart almost £30,000 in compensation 

Many early career researchers saw their working hours fall, but one in nine scientists worked 60 hours a week, says Vitae study

American Association of University Professors opens formal investigations into institutions accused of cutting jobs without consultation

Women on fixed-term contracts twice as likely to have moved forward or delayed plans to start a family compared with permanently employed

Academics also cite immigration policies and ‘dwindling’ funding as reasons why position in country is no longer ‘holy grail’

Latest revelations continue horror week for the Australian sector

Latest losses bring national coronavirus tally to about 11,000 jobs, excluding casual and fixed term positions

Education minister Ingrid van Engelshoven says too much research funding is now competitive, leading to intense work stress