The Times Higher advice panel answers readers' questions on pay docking, pensions and a host of other concerns relating to the industrial dispute If I have taken part in strike action, does it affect...
Andrew Oswald bets you didn't know you could retire on two-thirds of your salary instead of half. Would you like to retire on two-thirds of your salary or just half? It is a tough one. If you are...
Universities have emerged as major investors in the arms trade in a "name and shame" campaign by a human rights pressure group. Some 49 educational organisations, including universities and...
British undergraduates will be a minority at Oxford Oxford University's governing council has drawn up strategy documents that would recast the institution along the lines of an US-style Ivy League...
British undergraduates will be a minority at Oxford Oxford University's governing council has drawn up strategy documents that would recast the institution along the lines of an US-style Ivy League...
Geoffrey Talbot examines the pros and cons of opting out of occupational pension schemes. When your vice chancellor chooses to opt out into a personal pension, start worrying. Presently, managers and...
Graduate flood 'will lead to crisis over jobs' The massive expansion of universities is turning degrees into "lottery tickets" that offer graduates no guarantee of a good job, the Government has been...
Rich universities' assets and private incomes should be taken into account when handing out public money, lecturers' union Natfhe said this week. The move would help close a funding gap in which the...
THES reporters unravel the tangle of pension options facing staff three years after the reorganisation of higher education and examine the barriers to a unified system. In the university business...
ACADEMICS are retiring in droves while student numbers are rising, it emerged this week. Latest figures from the Higher Education Statistical Agency show the number of posts falling vacant as a...
Universities should teach future captains of industry how to act ethically, says Carol Adams. As business has become internationalised and multinationals have grown to sizes unimaginable a few...
University of Southampton DSc: David Rhind, incoming vice-chancellor of City University, director-general of the Ordnance Survey, visiting professor in the university's department of geography; The...