Employment

Around 70 protesters gathered outside the University of London’s Senate House today to campaign for better rights for outsourced university staff.

White applicants are three times more likely to get a professorial post than black and minority ethnic ones, a new report suggests.

Academics at the University of Birmingham will be balloted over strike action in protest at what a union has described as the institution’s “campaign of forced redundancies and aggressive management tactics”.

A new report from the American Historical Association provides fresh evidence of the impact of marital status and gender on academic careers.

Staff turn down enhanced offer to stay within national bargaining unit. Jack Grove reports

Effort to halt male bias on event panels sparks controversy. Elizabeth Gibney and Paul Jump write

The UCU is a democratic, future-facing endeavour proud to fight for both the one and the many, Sally Hunt affirms

One academic’s experience of coalescing institutions was not a positive one, largely owing to a lack of forethought or consideration

UCU set for tough talk over resources and strategy, general secretary Sally Hunt tells Jack Grove

Remuneration of Russell Group v-cs up as pension allowances approach ceiling. Jack Grove reports

It’s tough for minority academics, as evidence of discrimination attests. David Matthews writes

With radical changes causing discontent across Europe, Susan Bassnett wonders if UK scholars are justified in feeling so aggrieved about their lot

Toby Miller did not take a straight path into academia - far from it, having been, among other things, a DJ, a ditch digger, a speech-writer, a bureaucrat, a security guard and a merchant banker. He reflects on how his atypical trajectory shaped his views of the insular scholarly world

Third of sector expects staff to hold qualification, FoI request shows. Elizabeth Gibney reports

‘Probably the most significant medieval historian’ rounds on absentee students. Paul Jump writes

Unions protest over transfer of academic support services to external firm. Jack Grove reports

University efforts to make it easier to remove fixed-term staff anger unions. Jack Grove writes

A sociology lecturer at the University of Birmingham is at the centre of a redundancy row that could lead to industrial action among the institution’s 1,000 University and College Union members.

More than 150 posts to go as London Met is forced to tighten its belt. David Matthews reports

Jack Grove reports from the SRHE annual conference on efforts to clarify an ‘unclearly defined’ role

Part-time teachers are not getting the support they require from university departments, despite their growing importance within the academy.

Fawzi Ibrahim implores the UCU to work collectively to save itself from political turmoil and financial meltdown

Academics at the University of Sussex say they were left stunned at a meeting of the institution’s senate when management refused to discuss motions put forward by union members of 17 departments over the closure of a childcare scheme.

A second stab at reforming path to dismissal draws UCU counter-attack. Elizabeth Gibney writes

Manifesto calls for university rankings to take gender gap into account. David Matthews writes