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Pushing out senior academics to make room for younger ones would only perpetuate an insidious ageism, says Geoffrey Alderman

Rising liabilities may again focus attention on whether Universities Superannuation Scheme assumptions are ‘unreasonably pessimistic’

Opportunities for informal scholarly interaction often leave many academics on the sidelines, says Jenny Pickerill

Being head of undergraduate studies was an eye-opener for Stephen Curry

The University of Lincoln rejects criticism for listing hourly paid staff on its website, saying they are ‘not second-class members of faculty’

Lincoln Allison argues that it is becoming harder for academics to share controversial ideas

Shahidha Bari on academics’ strange relationship with the idea of failure

Tell us what you love (or loathe) about your institution

Strategic plan ushers in £3 million bursary programme, plus ‘pathways out of the university’ for staff who fail to align with mission

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

Older academics need to make room for the young, says Sally Feldman

Relocation of call centre creates savings that are reinvested to improve provision, says IT head 

University refutes accusation by Max Watson, management critic who was target of ‘plague’ comments

Understanding the reading brain can help academics and students improve, says Yellowlees Douglas

Study finds that students choose to major in subjects that are ‘more challenging’ in bad economic times

Trinity College Dublin and the University of Limerick become the first organisations outside the UK to gain an Athena SWAN charter mark for gender equality

Head of Canterbury Christ Church, which has seen female representation almost triple on its board, says more needs to be done to seek out talent

Graduate talent spotter says UK’s ‘theoretical’ courses should be more like those in continental Europe

Unions and universities divided over extent of ‘casualisation’ despite major joint initiative

As more women push on the ‘sticky door’, Paula Nicolson reflects on her own experiences over three decades

The way universities perceive and handle flexible hours is an area for improvement, says a joint report by employers and unions

Predicted £310 million deficit prompts sweeping changes for non-academic personnel

Women in university senior management earn significantly less than men in equivalent roles, says new report

Sweeping changes to the laws governing industrial disputes could restrict unions’ ability to call strike action, writes Jack Grove

Alison Hayman says that she is ‘not incapable’ and her treatment was ‘unjust’

University and College Union says proposals could mean a third of Wolverhampton's research professors lose their jobs

But university governing body says it recognises ‘distress’ caused to Nobel laureate and his UCL scientist wife by his dismissal

Consultant gynaecologist and Imperial College London professor Jenny Higham takes over at South London institution

George Osborne's plan for a minimum £9 an hour will not affect vast majority of university staff, but there will be cost implications for institutions, says Jack Grove

Shahidha Bari on a supposedly fun thing that makes her apprehensive

Symposium speakers, including activist David Graeber, examine the real function of bureaucracy and how the academy can fight back

Pension relief, salary sacrifice schemes and higher education budgets could be targeted by George Osborne, says Jack Grove

Two unions reject 1 per cent offer, but Unison and GMB get behind it

Post-2007 conditions are worse, workloads are higher and it’s ‘all about the money’ for management, report three-quarters of survey respondents

Six early career researchers reflect on their experiences

Funding for nursing and physiotherapy courses 'lowest of any subject in higher education'

Future of the 400-year-old Catholic college is uncertain after decision to leave federal university in 2018

Imperial College London vice-provost Debra Humphris has been appointed as the new head of the South Coast institution.

What are the key issues local union branches are dealing with, and how do they manage relationships with institutions in what many activists argue is an increasingly confrontational environment?

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