Students risk missing out on votes as universities lag on registration A quarter of universities doing only bare minimum to help registration as general election looms, survey suggests Simon Baker 11月 7日
Climate Commission targets coordinated sector action in UK University and further education organisations band together Anna McKie 11月 7日
Bill Rammell to step down as University of Bedfordshire v-c Former higher education minister will leave in December to seek consultancy and advisory positions Jack Grove 11月 6日
Catalan protests spark debate over role of universities Barcelona academic says universities should take more neutral stance, but exiled scholar says Spain’s actions ‘undermine’ European values Ellie Bothwell 11月 6日
Brexit Party scholar: quite a few academics are secret Brexiteers Would-be Brexit Party MP Kevin Yuill says he is encouraged by support for Leave party among staff and students Jack Grove 11月 6日
Turkish academics sound alarm over gender segregation plans Presidential push for women’s universities accompanied by scrapping of gender action plan by regulator David Matthews 11月 6日
Widening participation should include those with a criminal record Politicians are culpable for restricting student loans for prisoners, but universities need to be less wary of released offenders, says Nick Hillman Nick Hillman 11月 6日
UCU leader: strikes coming as staff are ‘burnt out and leaving sector’ V-c warns pension and pay strikes will damage whole sector but union members believe experience shows industrial action will force change Anna McKie 11月 5日
UCU announces eight days of strikes, starting late November Staff will walk out at 60 universities starting from 25 November Anna McKie 11月 5日
MPs call for action on ‘threats’ to UK academia from autocracies Foreign Affairs Committee hears report of academics in UK being bugged as they discussed Russia John Morgan 11月 5日
Impact agenda ‘enables climate change scholar-activists’ Philosopher and Extinction Rebellion campaigner highlights ‘genuine synergies’ between academia and activism Ellie Bothwell 11月 5日
Why shouldn’t the UK’s Darpa be within UKRI? Conservative mistrust of the existing research funding system demands a re-examination of its uneasy compromises, says John Womersley John Womersley 11月 5日
