The university strikes show how a dispute around a fairly technical employment issue, pensions, can develop a momentum of its own and become a catalyst for a much wider expression of dissatisfaction.
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Universities need to protect people with different ideas.
When it comes to choosing a university, a positive personal experience is much more influential for students than rankings or league tables.
Traditional picket lines feel outdated now that work is no longer a place that you go, but a thing that you do.
Strike rules for international staff illuminates the intractable tensions that underpin the logic of universities.
From the outside, it might look like another case of a pension black hole problem hitting another UK institution. Not so.
Cities and universities can overcome social divides and create better places, but only if they work together.
The latest on those higher education reforms.
We asked three experts for their takes.
How to define the public role of universities in the age of post-truth populism.
Undemocratic? Bureaucratic? The EU and universities have plenty in common.
What is it like being an autistic academic?
Fake degrees are bad news for universities and employers.
UUK’s ‘Universities for Europe’ campaign is a welcome contribution to a debate that is inevitably partial.
The decision by the university membership body to campaign for Britain staying in the EU has implications for academics.
Universities are keenly awaiting more detail on the government’s planned Teaching Excellence Framework.
Labour’s much anticipated but yet-to-be confirmed policy to reduce the cap on university tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000 a year will be highly expensive, could leave universities £10 billion out of…
The past three decades have seen an unprecedented explosion of activity in a new sub-discipline of mathematics: financial mathematics. The emergence of this field has parallelled the expansion of the quantitative…
Universities are acutely aware of their role in preventing terrorism. Now the government has proposed a statutory duty in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill that will require universities, schools…
The coalition is ploughing ahead with its plan to give schools more control of training new teachers. A recent announcement of government-funded places on teacher training courses for the next academic…
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