Employment

Popular action can still make a difference, as the U-turn on the fate of a university politics department shows, says John Holford

More than half of staff at university that tried to launch TeachHigher are employed on such deals

Refusal by John Allen to obey instruction from manager at Queen Mary University of London led to his sacking, tribunal rules

Importance of doctoral candidates in research makes it likely that many institutions will make the change, says principal

Ulster University is to cut up to 210 jobs and lose around 1,200 student places to cope with a £8 million reduction in Northern Ireland’s higher education budget

Nicole Westmarland shares what she learned about creating a new way of working in academia after losing her spouse

Paper addresses ‘stark under-representation’ of black and minority ethnic staff in university senior management

FoI request reveals which institutions have targets of some sort after the suicide last year of a professor at Imperial College London

Once upon a time there was an adjunct lecturer…By Nicholas Rowe

But new report reveals that the president was not the highest-paid person on campus at more than half of institutions

Former postdoctoral researchers will now be counted as alumni at the University of Cambridge

Job losses could be in prospect at Aston University, with the institution saying it has to “look at how we do things” in the light of more higher education cuts.

Poor materials, disengaged students and little time or incentive to prepare dishearten one casualised academic

Union advocates rejection of pay offer and Prevent strategy implementation

Support staff to remain on single salary spine with a bespoke model set up to allow institution to compete for top early career researchers

The general secretary of the University and College Union has called for unity as the organisation approaches its 10^th anniversary.

Survey details the financial and personal costs of casualisation in higher education

More than 200 jobs could go at the University of Exeter as part of plans to save £25 million

Continental system is critical to stop drain to US, Patrick Aebischer argues

The couple sacked over alleged leaks had their appeal thrown out by the University of Bolton last week

Amanda Goodall and Margit Osterloh explore the causes of and solutions to the dearth of women at the top of UK academia

When his university found evidence of a £2,000 gender pay gap, it knew what was the right thing to do - and it did it, says David Wilkinson

But those on low pay to be offered up to 2.65 per cent, says Ucea

UCU reacts by pledging to instruct lawyers to fight decision

The misapplication of private sector HR techniques harms individuals without raising performance, says Rob Briner

Around 40 jobs could be at risk at the University of Manchester after it announced plans to drop longstanding opposition to compulsory redundancies

Carol Hay and John Kaag make one final heroic push in the final straight of the academic year

A tale of quiet devotion to scholarship seems all the more poignant given the relentless nature of today’s academy, says Rachel Carey

Two trade unions are urging the University of Bolton to overturn its decision to dismiss two employees for allegedly leaking information to the press

A Scottish university broke the law when it let staff on fixed-term contracts go without consulting unions, the Supreme Court has ruled

Employers have called on unions to “consider carefully the real value” of a 0.9 per cent pay offer for university employees.

An undergraduate taught by the recently dismissed University of Bolton lecturer Damien Markey has described how the decision has affected students.

Benjamin Poore calls on universities to reject plans likely to make hourly paid lecturers’ lot poorer and more precarious

Extravagant claims for the right of scholars to say almost anything endanger support for the principle, says Martyn Hammersley

The president of Imperial College London has spoken directly about the suicide of Stefan Grimm for the first time in public.

Staff at the University of Surrey may strike later this term over plans to axe up to 100 jobs.

Critics of the University of Warwick’s TeachHigher division also wary of UK-wide franchise

People are right to believe that revealing mental health problems at work will do more harm than good, says an academic living with depression

A private place to work is much more than just an office, says Shahidha Bari

Five academics detail how taking leave of the grind has turbocharged their work – but can everyone get a break?

‘Academic citizenship’ is the key to moving up the career ladder, argues Richard J. Williams

A hearing into the ‘needless’ death of a professor at Imperial College London has ruled that he took his own life by asphyxiating himself

THE’s Best University Workplace Survey 2015 reveals concerns over class sizes and other issues in the wake of higher tuition fees

The former leader of the University of York on how his new role’s focus on technology made the decision an easy one

Did rises for vice-chancellors outpace those of academic staff, and did the REF swell the salaries of star researchers? Jack Grove rings up the benefits accrued

Imperial is to undertake a review of how it uses performance metrics for staff after the death of one of its academics

Union says branch secretary and wife both deny any involvement in leaking stories

A new paper contends that some academics adopt mildly rebellious views to look more sexually alluring

Top academics will be increasingly reluctant to come to the UK, says Hirono, who is being forced to quit Britain despite her permanent post

Academics complain after ‘technical difficulties’ delay responses and modelling tool

Where will the axe fall? Up to 165 jobs may be lost as enrolments tumble

Home Office under fire over ‘indefensible’ appeal forcing international relations expert to quit UK

Emma Rees investigates research where selfhood and scholarship are intertwined

European Court of Human Rights rules in favour of a whistleblowing Latvian academic

Academics have been left fearing for their jobs at a university politics department after management announced a restructure

As a consultation launches, employees consider the impact of the USS reforms

The Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey is being abused, according to one former university employee

Be open about your health, an academic advises. It could be the surest way to get the workplace support you need

FX Plus given £105,000 to encourage cost-sharing copycats at universities

By Colleen Flaherty, for Inside Higher Ed