Employment

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.

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

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