The University of Sheffield has put on hold plans to cut the pensions of its lowest-paid staff after all local MPs with the exception of deputy prime minister Nick Clegg “urged a rethink”.
Four more English universities have unveiled plans to charge the top rate of tuition fees, bringing the number to have opted for the maximum to 32 of the 44 institutions to date that have stated...
US academics are seeing “historic lows” in their pay and conditions, according to a report published today.
A vice-chancellor has spoken of his “sympathy” for students in England who took to the streets to protest against rises in university tuition fees.
University College Falmouth plans to charge tuition fees of £9,000 in 2012.
External examiner James Derounian seeks respect and fair remuneration for the bastions of the appraisal system
Striking lecturers are pledging to bring Liverpool Hope University to a “standstill” today, although managers claim two-thirds will turn up to work as usual.
Lecturers from the University and College Union who help to run the sector’s £30 billion pension fund are being threatened with High Court action – by the fund itself.
Deborah Cameron considers the harm that our current constructions of masculinity do to men
Howard Davies wants more detail on policies to leave the world in a fit state for our descendants
Sir Alec Jeffreys developed DNA profiling in the genetics department at the University of Leicester during the mid-1980s, revolutionising forensic science and stimulating a sizeable popular...
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