Nick Mayo

Switch to students applying after receiving their results still faces sector resistance despite government and opposition signalling support

Case president says vice-chancellors must provide strong support for philanthropy

Average members set to get £18,200 a year in retirement under latest changes, compared with £23,800 under pre-2011 scheme

Andrew Rhodes says he was called a ‘psychopath’ and blamed for the death of a colleague

There are plenty of pitfalls to be aware of when using slides in a presentation – academics in the know give their top tips

Gap in acceptance rates for major European conferences entirely down to behaviour of male referees

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

The new president of Boise State University discusses what the Victorians can teach us and how her dream of ‘staying in college for ever’ has come true

Early career academics dismayed to see 20 per cent threshold for independent projects and personal development dropped from UK guidelines

Overseas scholars feel that their presence is ‘tokenistic’, says study, despite state-sponsored drive for internationalisation

After the pensions strike, employees’ sense of ‘helplessness’ has ‘evaporated’, says incoming UCU leader