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Contractor says many of its staff rely on working 60 hours a week, but could see this reduced to 42 on average Dozens of security guards at one of the UK’s most prestigious universities face losing their jobs, while many more are likely to see pay cuts…
Matt Cook, who has written on queer urban life and the Aids crisis, takes up the new post at Mansfield CollegeThe renowned cultural historian Matt Cook is to become the UK’s first fully endowed professor of LGBTQ+ history in a newly created post at Man…
University taking disciplinary action against 11 students who occupied buildings during demonstrationsA group of Manchester University students face expulsion over a rent strike that saw more than 350 collectively withhold more than £2m.The university …
Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson says party would reduce monthly repayments for graduatesLabour has promised to reverse changes to the student loan system being planned by the Conservative government in a way that could reduce monthly repa…
Survey follows petition demanding legislation for a statutory duty of care in higher educationStudents who are struggling with their mental health can wait a whole academic year to receive help from university counselling services, while others are all…
Government accused of paying ‘lip service’ to free speech as Arif Ahmed is given higher education roleA Cambridge philosophy professor is to become the government’s first “free speech tsar” for higher education in England, it has been revealed, in an a…
Vice-chancellors urge review of tuition fees in light of caps on overseas students and rising costsVice-chancellors are warning the current funding model for UK higher education is “broken” and have urged the government to review the system of tuition …
Gender-critical feminist’s speech temporarily stopped after protester glues themself to floorThe gender-critical feminist Dr Kathleen Stock was forced to temporarily halt her contested appearance at the Oxford Union after a trans activist glued themsel…
Former professor who argues trans people cannot expect all rights afforded by biological sex is due to speak at Oxford UnionKathleen Stock, the gender-critical feminist whose forthcoming address to Oxford university students on Tuesday has prompted pla…
As the stalemate continues, union infighting has added a new dimension while universities are threatening to dock payWhen Jo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), stood at the podium of its annual congress yesterday, she …