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Did rises for vice-chancellors outpace those of academic staff, and did the REF swell the salaries of star researchers? Jack Grove rings up the benefits accrued

Imperial is to undertake a review of how it uses performance metrics for staff after the death of one of its academics

Union says branch secretary and wife both deny any involvement in leaking stories

A new paper contends that some academics adopt mildly rebellious views to look more sexually alluring

Top academics will be increasingly reluctant to come to the UK, says Hirono, who is being forced to quit Britain despite her permanent post

Academics complain after ‘technical difficulties’ delay responses and modelling tool

Where will the axe fall? Up to 165 jobs may be lost as enrolments tumble

Home Office under fire over ‘indefensible’ appeal forcing international relations expert to quit UK

Emma Rees investigates research where selfhood and scholarship are intertwined

European Court of Human Rights rules in favour of a whistleblowing Latvian academic

Academics have been left fearing for their jobs at a university politics department after management announced a restructure

As a consultation launches, employees consider the impact of the USS reforms

The Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey is being abused, according to one former university employee

Be open about your health, an academic advises. It could be the surest way to get the workplace support you need

FX Plus given £105,000 to encourage cost-sharing copycats at universities

By Colleen Flaherty, for Inside Higher Ed

Deifying young fashion designers does them no favours and slights the many who make their work possible, says Sally Feldman

Hakim Adi urges early career researchers at first meeting of Black Doctoral Network UK to be resilient when facing difficulties

Sir Ian Diamond’s efficiencies report endorses the shift from incremental pay rises to service-related rewards

Becoming an academic is the third most desirable job for Britons and is seen as more attractive than being a Hollywood film star

Soas conference discusses building a network of groups fighting for fair pay and conditions for casual teaching staff

Aberystwyth University will run voluntary severance scheme despite having already spent millions on restructuring

The results show that most people in the sector enjoy their work and their colleagues, but some are happier than others

An academic’s conviction as a paedophile was kept under wraps in the 1990s. Would a cover-up happen today, asks Geoffrey Alderman

Picking up professor’s tab for defending himself in tribunal adds £66,000 to university’s expenses arising out of suspension

A wide range of essential under-the-radar tasks sustain academic culture, but who will perform them in an increasingly careerist academy?

Staff at pre-1992 universities have voted by two to one in favour of accepting plans to end the country’s largest private final salary pension scheme

University says there are ‘lessons to be learned’ from professor’s tribunal

Some early career scholars feel there is not enough support for academics who reach out, say Richard Watermeyer and Jamie Lewis

Calls to sack Robert Lambert would deprive us of academic expertise, argues Stefano Bonino

University staff will not resume a marking boycott this week after employers put forward amended plans to reform the sector’s biggest pension scheme

University settles Adrian Graves’ employment tribunal claim after vice-chancellor leaves

Nanyang Technological University president’s claim that tenure dispute was ‘not political’ contested by ex-faculty member Cherian George

UK universities claim 10 spots in annual survey of gay-friendly workplaces

Majority of workplace slights informed by your place in the academic pecking order, study finds

Student groups are holding a series of protests this month against pay inequality in universities

Jenny Pickerill offers some advice on some common mistakes and how to stand out from the pack

Academic inbreeding is not considered unusual or problematic in many countries, according to study

Tim Hall describes staff and student experiences of interdisciplinary mergers, including an awkward departmental ‘speed date’

Private university in Turkey neglects research metrics for external views on academics’ performance

Imagine having the power to direct higher education leaders, scholars or policymakers to take - and stick to - a new approach in 2015

More academics were employed on teaching-only contracts around the time of the research excellence framework deadline, new figures show

Appeal tribunal overturns dismissal of case brought by Stephen Games over university’s PhD requirement

The USS is being attacked from all sides over the methodology of its valuation and assumptions, claims UCU

UCU argues that a rise in project-based grants fuel job insecurity and deter postgraduates from working in academia

UCU official attacks redundancy criteria at the university amid calls to reverse ‘dangerous’ process

The flawed research excellence framework is not a process of peer review in any meaningful sense, argues Derek Sayer, who appealed against his inclusion in the exercise

A research assistant has claimed that his university declined to sponsor his visa to remain in the country because of his political activism.

Managerial fundamentalism has taken hold in universities, with scholars viewed as resources that must be controlled, argues the Warwick scholar

Emails with manager reveal details of review placed on academic found dead in September

Our Best University Workplace Survey 2015 shows disparate opinions on the need for changes

Colleagues say failed grant applications had made Stefan Grimm fear for his job

John Sutherland, Sarah Churchwell and others pick books that capture truths about the sector

Ten branches demand sector conference as union fails to escalate industrial action in response to pay docking threats in marking boycott

Some 78 per cent of professors, 72 per cent of senior managers and about 80 per cent of vice-chancellors and principals in the UK are men

Move follows similar action at Liverpool and Bradford, while Ulster staff ask for their university to be ‘grey-listed’

Employee review websites have the potential to change university cultures, says Alexandra Blakemore

Tensions remain high as marking boycott over pensions reform continues

University leaders must lead the debate on realistic workloads, says Doris Ruth Eikhof

A University of Sheffield academic has called on the institution to give students the pay docked from his salary for being part of a marking boycott