University governance

Expert points to ill effects of ‘countercyclical’ enrolment

Audit finds lack of women on university boards affects female v-c numbers

The vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University has announced he is to retire next year.

Cosmo Graham considers the possible outcomes

Caltech, ranked top in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for the past three years , has announced a new president

Queen’s University Belfast has announced that its dean of medicine, dentistry and biomedical sciences will take over as its president and vice-chancellor

Malcolm Gillies hesitates before marking any documents ‘For your eyes only’

Former Tory minister Baroness Bottomley questions need for academic leadership

If the line you have drawn in the sand is crossed, resign

Union a ‘positive activity’, says economics lecturer

Scholar reflects on risks, regrets, the value of teaching and facing the global future

FoI also shows Patrick McGhee set up inquiry into doomed overseas ventures

Leader hopes for cooperative, ‘values-driven’ federation

World Bank study weighs strengths and flaws of universities in wake of Arab Spring

Freedom of demand but not supply, bureaucracy and Stalinist pay deals make progress almost impossible, says Sir Stuart Etherington

Quintin McKellar discusses clearing, post-qualifications applications and tuition fees

Institution’s annus horribilis continues as news emerges of another major loss

Vice-chancellor John Cater says that employment focus ensures strong applicant interest

By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed

London South Bank University has announced that its new vice-chancellor will be David Phoenix, current deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Central Lancashire.

Global project explores the paucity of female leaders in academia

Dean of medical school who was cleared of misconduct quits after restructure

Institutional ‘risk registers’ flag growing worry that top managers will be lured abroad

Can the government push through an overhaul of the sector in tough times?

Leadership Foundation head discusses major priority on his watch

The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been officially designated as a higher education institution.

The University of East London has appointed a new vice-chancellor following several high-profile departures around the beginning of this year

Academic and student unions north of the border have again condemned a new code of governance for Scottish universities as “vague” and “meaningless”.

Myshele Goldberg on a numbers-based approach that doesn’t add up

What if marketing-speak is not glib nonsense, but a poison at the heart of the university?

A former director of research at England’s funding council has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church University.

An Australian vice-chancellor has been named as the new head of King’s College London.

Management would not listen to alternative views, duo state

Newcastle University scooped the top prize last night at the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2013

No such thing as higher education sector, PA Consulting poll hears

The outgoing head of King’s College London is to take charge of a University of Oxford college.

Martin Hall offers regrets after inglorious June but remains committed to post

Universities have been lambasted for their “excruciatingly slow progress” on switching away from investments in “unethical” industries such as oil.

The University of Salford has confirmed plans to close virtually all courses in modern languages, politics and contemporary history and shut down an entire school “to secure the future of the university” after seeing falling student demand.

Leeds Metropolitan University is planning to change its name and is looking at three options: Leeds Beckett University, Leeds Headingley University and Leeds Ridings University.

Universities must ensure that governing bodies are fit to do their part to prevent crises, Michael Shattock says

Existing office set-up is outdated, v-c argues

New v-c aims to crowdsource strategy via online meet-up

East London institution is mired in difficulty as leadership disintegrates

Unity decries decisions made ‘ad hoc’ without consulting scholars

The University of Salford has accepted more than 200 students on to courses that it is considering closing within weeks and may face a “significant backlash” as a result, an internal document suggests.

University of London college targets graduate employability and research cash

Research paints picture of permanent revolution in sector since mid-1990s

Brian Cantor, the vice-chancellor of York University, is to take charge of the University of Bradford as his next post.

The chief executive of the Scottish Funding Council is to leave his position to join a university, a matter of weeks after a similar move by the head of the English funding council.

The Duke of Westminster has been revealed as the country’s richest university chancellor in a list of the UK’s wealthiest people.

The University of Central Lancashire is shelving plans to switch to private company status, potentially dealing a blow to other post-1992 universities’ hopes of making the move and opening up to commercial investment.

The Army’s teamwork ethos shaped the management style of the University of Essex’s Anthony Forster

A new draft code of governance for Scottish universities has been condemned as “weak”, “meaningless in places” and offering “nothing new” by student and academic unions north of the border.

Action needs to be taken against Scottish universities because senior staff members are being given “worrying levels of high pay”, the National Union of Students Scotland has said.

New head of all-women Murray Edwards College, Cambridge makes equality a priority

Efficient and inclusive decision-making will help universities to gain the support of their communities, says Ferdinand von Prondzynski

Universities are required to be open to scrutiny because they are publicly funded. But how far should it go? When it comes to their internal business, David Matthews discovers that competition may be a stumbling block to transparency

Speculation mounts that reform has diminished leadership role

With a few exceptions, vice-chancellors’ remuneration did not rise vertiginously in 2011-12 - a good thing politically. But are they still paid too much compared with their peers?