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Study finds that some scholars can earn lucrative rewards from international contracts, but may deprive domestic postgraduates of vital experience

UCU says that universities should focus on solving dispute ‘instead of trying to spin their way out of this’

Effectiveness of courses aimed at improving diversity in leadership called into question by interviews with ethnic minority staff

Survey of 200 hires finds them often stuck in usual disciplinary confines rather than working across boundaries as intended

Union cites aspirational university statement as grounds to halt walkout

Judgment likely to reignite the battle over the fixed departure ages at the university and elsewhere

UCU, employers and USS will discuss the ongoing pensions row, following series of recommendations from expert panel  

Email also says staff should not work from home for general reasons for more than one or two days per semester

Study finds that overseas scholars in former communist countries work there not out of deliberate choice but often due to ‘happenstance’, love or to escape poor job prospects at home

Blocked from firing hostile professors, institutions restrict their teaching rights

University’s first graduate walkout since 1973 comes as winter break approaches

Proposals include new job classifications, a rolling back of metrics, and shorter publication lists in a bid to end excessive ‘emphasis on research performance’

Ucea chair’s institution among those to decide against withholding salaries

Precarious contracts ‘damage’ universities’ teaching and reputation, panel says

Step comes as employers and union debate equality, casualisation and workload, without movement on pay offer

Thousands walk out, but universities say they expect ‘low to medium’ levels of disruption

After last year’s walkout over pensions, this year’s action is ‘part of something bigger’, say union members

Coventry union members on strike over “onerous and unreasonable” system

Women are less effective at bargaining monetary benefits but have more success when they feel supported by professors, says study

Survey of 10,000 researchers suggests that despite headlines, salary and location are still bigger drivers

Jo Grady says ‘a lot of’ university leaders want to strike a deal over contributions to Universities Superannuation Scheme

Caught up in a national anxiety about falling behind technologically, universities have recruited hundreds of new professors including data experts and digital humanities professors

V-c warns pension and pay strikes will damage whole sector but union members believe experience shows industrial action will force change

Staff will walk out at 60 universities starting from 25 November

About 1 million students set to be affected by walkout

University believes new criteria rewarding selfless behaviour will ‘focus minds’

Scheme means universities can spend levy money on own training for lecturers instead of seeing it claimed by government

Student labour movement feels momentum despite Trump administration pressure

After long-running protests, security staff and cleaners to be brought in-house, following similar move for other workers

Ucea report suggests more direct methods of reining in staff spending are being used amid financial pressure

Hesa data analysed by UCU also show how few black and other ethnic minority scholars are in senior positions

Warwick statistician Jane Hutton attacks lack of transparency over her dismissal from board of Universities Superannuation Scheme

Pension fund chair says Warwick statistician had ‘breached a number of her director’s duties’, but insists probe was ‘completely separate’ to investigation of her claims

President says Ivy League institution is reaping reward of looking past academic silos and selecting staff on ability to tackle external challenge

Researchers examined a sample of CVs and found that scholarly dishonesty extends to job applications

Preliminary results of EUA survey suggest three-quarters of responding institutions draw on much-criticised metric

Universities see maternity leave as a ‘tick-box exercise’, study warns

Shân Wareing reflects on how to start and conduct an ‘institutional conversation’ about race, in a Hepi essay

ETH rector says academia should focus on ‘excellent performances’, not quantity of research

Laser expert challenges university over alleged age discrimination and unfair dismissal

Financially troubled institution suggests senior faculty vulnerable

Women paid significantly less than men even when they are in the same role, conference hears

Mounting evidence of favouritism towards white male instructors doesn’t dissuade universities

Study inside French science agency shows effects of both explicit and implicit beliefs

University says scheme will give junior academics ‘opportunity to experience life as a full-time lecturer’, but critics suspect REF link

Ruskin College denies allegations of ‘victimisation’ of UCU members

Member of catering staff draws support after appeal to Sir David Eastwood to survive on her salary for a month

Worries over economy and graduate employability prompt trial of ‘1+X’ model in 10 provinces

‘Pockets of excellence’ in non-Russell Group institutions could be emptied, some fear

Wolfgang Ketterle says scientists should aim instead for equilibrium in the longer term, and always keep other interests or hobbies

Fast-growing Los Angeles campus had long insisted no impropriety in luring Paul Aisen, his data and his team

Some hourly paid and part-time academics may be effectively earning less than the minimum wage, says University and College Union

Union sets out timetable for ballots over industrial action in relation to the pay and USS pension disputes

Data on more than 19,000 institutions show Europe lags behind leading anglophone sectors on female leadership

Trump-dominated panel bolsters campuses that reject postgraduate unions

Swiss university has signed San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which says academics should not be judged on the journals they publish in

Hundreds of staff set to walk out on 28 June

University launches ‘urgent investigation’ into why it was not represented at tribunal

Liberal arts chief warns academics of cost of failing to serve local communities

Latest hearing due next month in case of Tony Brown, who refused to shut down unmoderated staff email list