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Staffordshire University is to close its Stafford campus and switch courses to its main site in Stoke-on-Trent.

Michael Crow is among a growing band of US university leaders whose pay is performance-related

Find out how academics and professional and support staff feel about working in UK higher education

Economic and Social Research Council chief executive Paul Boyle has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester

A Catholic college has become the UK’s newest university

The vice-chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University is to retire at the end of the year.

Salary shoots up for Sheffield v-c while UCU strikes over 1% pay offer

David Richardson is to become vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia when present incumbent Edward Acton retires in September

A former private secretary to Tony Blair is to take over as head of a Catholic university college

Headhunters Odgers Berndtson ask if academics have the business skills necessary to run a university

Mergers and system restructures are increasing across Europe as a result of funding cuts

Annual report discloses payments for three senior managers who resigned

Is Imperial’s appointment of Alice Gast indicative of a changing market?

Imperial College London has named Alice Gast as its next president.

Rise in average vice-chancellorial salary far outstrips 1 per cent pay offer to rank-and-file staff

A former NHS manager has been appointed as the new vice-chancellor of Nottingham Trent University.

Hundreds of people have signed a petition nominating actor Peter Capaldi to be the new rector of the University of Glasgow.

Institution’s 12-month embargo is probably ‘in breach’ of ICO guidelines. David Matthews reports

Matthew Reisz talks to the master of Oxford hall and ‘place of inter-religious encounter’

Two university leaders forgo increases as tensions over staff wage offer continue

Expert points to ill effects of ‘countercyclical’ enrolment

Audit finds lack of women on university boards affects female v-c numbers

The vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University has announced he is to retire next year.

Cosmo Graham considers the possible outcomes

Caltech, ranked top in the for the past three years , has announced a new president

Queen’s University Belfast has announced that its dean of medicine, dentistry and biomedical sciences will take over as its president and vice-chancellor

Malcolm Gillies hesitates before marking any documents ‘For your eyes only’

Former Tory minister Baroness Bottomley questions need for academic leadership

If the line you have drawn in the sand is crossed, resign

FoI also shows Patrick McGhee set up inquiry into doomed overseas ventures

Union a ‘positive activity’, says economics lecturer

Scholar reflects on risks, regrets, the value of teaching and facing the global future

Leader hopes for cooperative, ‘values-driven’ federation

World Bank study weighs strengths and flaws of universities in wake of Arab Spring

Freedom of demand but not supply, bureaucracy and Stalinist pay deals make progress almost impossible, says Sir Stuart Etherington

Quintin McKellar discusses clearing, post-qualifications applications and tuition fees

Institution’s annus horribilis continues as news emerges of another major loss

Vice-chancellor John Cater says that employment focus ensures strong applicant interest

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London South Bank University has announced that its new vice-chancellor will be David Phoenix, current deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Central Lancashire.

Global project explores the paucity of female leaders in academia

Dean of medical school who was cleared of misconduct quits after restructure

Institutional ‘risk registers’ flag growing worry that top managers will be lured abroad

Can the government push through an overhaul of the sector in tough times?

Leadership Foundation head discusses major priority on his watch

The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been officially designated as a higher education institution.

The University of East London has appointed a new vice-chancellor following several high-profile departures around the beginning of this year

Academic and student unions north of the border have again condemned a new code of governance for Scottish universities as “vague” and “meaningless”.

Myshele Goldberg on a numbers-based approach that doesn’t add up

What if marketing-speak is not glib nonsense, but a poison at the heart of the university?

A former director of research at England’s funding council has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church University.

An Australian vice-chancellor has been named as the new head of King’s College London.

Management would not listen to alternative views, duo state

Newcastle University scooped the top prize last night at the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2013

No such thing as higher education sector, PA Consulting poll hears

The outgoing head of King’s College London is to take charge of a University of Oxford college.

Martin Hall offers regrets after inglorious June but remains committed to post

Universities have been lambasted for their “excruciatingly slow progress” on switching away from investments in “unethical” industries such as oil.

The University of Salford has confirmed plans to close virtually all courses in modern languages, politics and contemporary history and shut down an entire school “to secure the future of the university” after seeing falling student demand.

Leeds Metropolitan University is planning to change its name and is looking at three options: Leeds Beckett University, Leeds Headingley University and Leeds Ridings University.