Vice-chancellor got ?288,000 payout on sudden exit from Leeds Simone Buitendijk worked just a few months of the last academic year but received over ?430,000 in total remuneration By Patrick Jack 9 December
Let’s eliminate the ethnicity degree-awarding gap with efficacy and truth Managers should take inspiration from student organising, but we need more than diversity window-dressing, say Alexander Hensby and Barbara Adewuni By Alexander Hensby 9 December
Edinburgh ‘intimidating’ pro-Palestinian scholars, letter claims University accuses protesters of creating hostile environment on campus By Patrick Jack 7 December
Dundee principal quits with immediate effect amid cash crisis Ian Gillespie had told staff last month that the university was facing a potential ?30 million deficit By Patrick Jack 6 December
University and College Union staff launch third round of strikes Increasingly bitter internal dispute comes amid possibility of sector industrial action over pay By Chris Havergal 6 December
UCU members reject latest pay offer and show support for strikes Union told by employers that pursuing industrial action will shut down progress on tackling working conditions concerns By Tom Williams 6 December
OfS register pause ‘will make sector financial problems worse’ Regulator accused of ‘dereliction of duty’ and faces potential legal action after temporarily shutting down key processes By Tom Williams 6 December
Academic Twitter is dead, says Cambridge PhD trolled over thesis Cambridge PhD graduate Ally Louks reflects on ‘baseless’ and ‘outlandish’ hate comments she has received after her selfie went viral By Jack Grove 6 December
Universities lukewarm on MEPs’ research funding proposals Dividing second pillar of FP10 into two councils could ‘weaken programme’s collaborative spirit’, European umbrella body warns By Emily Dixon 5 December
‘Worrying’ decline in university-business collaboration in UK Major survey of industry-academia relationships reveals slowdown in business interactions and income since pandemic By Jack Grove 5 December
Contextual admissions only helps ‘lucky few’, universities warned Social Mobility Commission says lowering entry grades for disadvantaged applicants is yet to have a ‘noticeable impact’ on inequality By Chris Havergal 5 December
Teaching opportunities for PhDs dry up in university cash crisis Barely one in three postgraduate researchers now have opportunity to teach, finds Advance HE survey, with financial pressure on institutions likely to blame By Jack Grove 5 December