University governance

Avondale’s elevation secured on the day reviewer says category should be scrapped

Professor warns scholars’ sense of disempowerment could ‘come to be reflected in the academic product’

Andrew Rhodes says he was called a ‘psychopath’ and blamed for the death of a colleague

But Australian assessor says most growth will be outside universities, and opens door to new category of institution

Union leader calls for Michael Arthur’s successor to rethink institution’s direction

Northwestern head says declining terms of presidents leave serving leaders wondering when they will be pushed out

Poland’s authoritarian government is routinely compared to its widely criticised counterpart in Hungary, and its university reforms sparked a wave of protest by students and academics fearful of political interference. But, one year on, are those concerns being realised? David Matthews travels to Warsaw to find out

Poland’s underperforming university system raises hard questions for those who advocate academic self-government over ‘managerialism’ 

Sydney’s Michael Spence says increasing competition, growing costs and changing expectations mean institutions need to change tack

Leader, who will relinquish post in September 2020, credited with leaving institution in ‘very strong’ position

Pan-continental prosperity will suffer if the UK’s near-absence from the European University project is a sign of things to come, says Martin Paul

New warden of London institution also announces levy on single-use plastic

But academics question the logic of consolidating three institutions in different locations

If universities don’t assert their expertise, demands from ministers and industry will become ever more misguided, says Dawn Freshwater

Martin Keck, who led the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry’s hospital, is being investigated by Munich’s public prosecutor

New Zealand university swaps former prime minister for Sir Anand Satyanand

In an age of vast team-science projects, it is more important than ever that leaders be properly prepared, says Matthew Flinders

All chiefs and no workers in Australia’s over-credentialled labour force, says new thinktank

Baroness Amos leaves London institution after issuing warning about its finances

New twist in case which triggered departure of vice-chancellor and management dean

Former deputy Liberal leader to assume the reins from Gareth Evans

Institution hit by 41 per cent budget reduction pins hopes on reducing administrative and academic duplication

More must be done to understand and help students who register for courses but then fade into the ether, says Bret Stephenson

Suspended vice-chancellor Richard Davies and dean Marc Clement now dismissed following investigations

A Times Higher Education survey bears out the growing difficulty of finding time for research

Summer is upon northern hemisphere academics. But its cherished traditional identity as a time for intensive research is being challenged by the increasing obligations around teaching and administration that often crowd out research entirely during term time. So is the 40/40/20 workload model still sustainable? Respondents to a THE survey suggest not. Nick Mayo hears why

Calls for critical thinking from their students are rarely reflected in academics’ own writing or institutional behaviour, says Alex Wright

Leiden University acted unlawfully, a court has ruled, in using anonymous letter to discredit an applicant for a professorship

Law dean calls Amy Wax’s views ‘repugnant’ but does not answer demands for her removal

Evolutionary processes are slow, but University of Oxford research shows the scheme is improving gender equality, says Pavel Ovseiko

Universities must draw up agreements with local partners that have the public voice at their heart, says Richard Brabner

Ruskin College denies allegations of ‘victimisation’ of UCU members

Providers squabble over whether to relax rules for university colleges or jettison the category altogether

State’s budget crisis seen as highlighting growing doubts about lawmakers’ confidence in the value of knowledge

Investigation launched following Dominic Shellard’s departure highlights a disturbing example of how things can go wrong, says John Coyne

Paying all governors could cost around £12 million across English sector, suggests paper by former GSM London CEO

Facilitated meetings can encourage early admissions of guilt from perpetrators and provide recognition of victims’ experiences, says Clare McGlynn

All modern academics know that it’s publish or perish, but is regular publication a gateway or a barrier to groundbreaking scholarship? Simon Baker assesses the data on the relationship between research volume and quality and asks which, if either, should be prioritised

Human beings can only work at full capacity for so long before they become incapable of doing any work at all, says an anonymous university employee

Review chair’s comments on ‘discretionary’ funding raise disturbing questions, say Mark E. Smith, Sarah Randall-Paley and Andrew McConnell

We must create spaces, resources and communities where individuals and groups can achieve optimal health through everyday activities, says Alan Cromlish

Independent review finds college's actions breached data protection law, as well as going against its own values

Starting again from scratch every October causes no end of stress, mix-ups and wasted time, says one hourly paid lecturer

Formulating and implementing a strategic plan is core to the modern university leader’s job description. But amid complaints that such documents are vacuous, generic and irrelevant to the wider community, John Ross asks how the process can be improved

Crowdsourcing a new configuration for the University of South Australia boosted brainpower and perhaps even institutional loyalty, says David Lloyd

Most fervent opponents of dropping requirement for Australian universities to conduct research employ large numbers of teaching-only academics

OfS investigation followed Dominic Shellard’s departure, with university admitting failure on oversight of leadership, ‘in particular the v-c’

‘Irresistible’ network technology raises threat level from crooks and spooks, says Jeff Bleich

With such wide disagreements in grading, the research excellence framework’s gravity for careers is unjustifiable, says Philip Moriarty

Data on more than 19,000 institutions show Europe lags behind leading anglophone sectors on female leadership

Leeds accused of attempting to extend control of central management by ending practice of selecting heads of school from within the faculty

University leaders more likely to have attended Oxford or Cambridge compared with five years ago, but also to have gone to a comprehensive school

Sir Ian Diamond reportedly did not trigger his 12-month notice period until his departure from the university

Governing body gambit torpedoes court case but further isolates academic senate

It is not enough for UK universities with charitable status merely to conduct teaching and research, say Nicola Dandridge and Helen Stephenson

Promotion criteria requiring top researchers to also be good teachers and managers undermine the nature of universities, says Andrew Oswald

Overseas branch campuses have mushroomed in the past two decades, but with the risks larger than initially assumed and the returns less certain, stories of abandoned ventures have begun to mount. Ellie Bothwell asks whether the model still has a future 

Teesside’s Leading Roles project uses stage techniques to train university staff in handling ‘challenging conversations’ and conflict, write Sharon Paterson, Paul Hessey and Mike Rogers

Running a university and composing music both involve ‘strategic planning’, says Roderick Watkins, composer of the ‘very dark, very violent’ Juniper Tree

Gradual changes to lifestyles will not save the planet. Universities need to go beyond Cambridge's recent lead and think bigger, says Peter Harper