All threatened strike action at the University of Birmingham has been called off after the University and College Union reached an agreement with the institution’s management over compulsory redundancies and performance management.
Students and academics need to be much more involved in the management and improvement of universities if the future of higher education is to be safeguarded.
Academics have been making their voice heard on Twitter after education secretary Michael Gove mocked 100 university professors who had criticised his plans to reform the national curriculum.
Michael Gove has reiterated his desire to move initial teacher training towards school-led providers by pledging an extra ?10 million for schools to train the next generation of teachers.
Outspoken MP George Galloway has tabled an early day motion calling for a University of Oxford college to reinstate a library invigilator who was sacked for failing to stop students film an internet dance video in her library.
UK women made up 40 per cent of A-level maths students in 2011 but just 6 per cent of professors in the subject, data collated for the London Mathematical Society show
George Osborne’s budget has revealed that the government appears to be scrapping plans to grant VAT exemption to for-profit higher education providers, a move that was aimed at exposing universities to greater competition.
Universities will not be asked to admit more students from deprived backgrounds in their new access agreements, the director of fair access has indicated.
In a further demonstration of the lure of the so-called golden triangle, pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca has announced plans to relocate its UK-based research and development activities from Cheshire to Cambridge.
The UK needs to boost its output of science, technology, engineering and maths graduates by almost 50 per cent to satisfy market demand, a thinktank has calculated.
The academic field of international relations ignores the Global South and is limited by its reliance on the English language, a South African humanities scholar has argued.
The University of the West of England has opted not to close its politics and international relations department after a campaign by students and staff to save it.
Some of the highest-achieving A-level students could be unfairly denied a place at the most selective universities if such institutions insist on candidates holding a grade A for GCSE English language, according to a headteachers’ association.
The English higher education sector last year saw its first real-terms cut in income since records began almost 20 years ago, while institutional finances will take a further hit this year because of the fall in student numbers under higher fees.
Liverpool John Moores University has chosen a high-profile judge as its new chancellor – although the appointment may not win many plaudits in the national press.
Universities UK has been asked by David Willetts to undertake a review of part-time study and make urgent recommendations in response to a report which shows a “dramatic decline” in part-time students.
