UK union members back strike action over pay and pensions About 1 million students set to be affected by walkout By Chris Havergal 31 October
Dundee principal suspended ¡®over rent row¡¯ Andrew Atherton placed on leave after just nine months in post By Ellie Bothwell 31 October
UK students spending less time studying, says survey Less than half of undergraduates now spend 11 or more hours a week in classes, according to Advance HE study By Ellie Bothwell 31 October
Glasgow to rate ¡®collegiality¡¯ for professorial promotions University believes new criteria rewarding selfless behaviour will ¡®focus minds¡¯ By Jack Grove 31 October
Unconditional offer students ¡®more likely to drop out¡¯ OfS data analysis suggests that almost 200 students who dropped out may not have done if they had been given a conditional offer By Simon Baker 30 October
Racism against students ¡®taken more seriously than staff abuse¡¯ Equality and Human Rights Commission data show staff complaints take longer to investigate and are less likely to lead to redress By Anna McKie 30 October
Horizon Europe association hopefuls ¡®out of time¡¯ for 2021 start UK and Switzerland risk missing out on beginning of €100 billion (?86 billion) programme, alongside potential newcomers Australia and Canada By John Morgan 30 October
Lochlann Jain: anthropologist versus categories Gender-fluid academic seeks to challenge the ways in which we carve up the world By Matthew Reisz 30 October
Regulator puts two-thirds of providers on ¡®enhanced monitoring¡¯ England¡¯s Office for Students also says 13 providers are in ¡®representations process¡¯ after being provisionally refused loans access By John Morgan 30 October
THE ¡®Table of Tables¡¯ 2020: Bath joins top 10 Cambridge leads combined results of three main UK university league tables for ninth year running By Ellie Bothwell 30 October
Anglia Ruskin strips Hong Kong lawmaker of honorary degree Junius Ho, who has been accused of supporting violence against protesters, has honour removed by British university By Anna McKie 29 October
Big variation across Europe in cost of publishing with ¡®big five¡¯ Analysis of publishing deals across Europe highlights different costs faced by country-level consortia By Jack Grove 29 October
