Senior academics warned that my university cared more about cheap labour than launching academic careers. It turns out they were right. More...
28 mars 2018
They called my university a PhD factory – now I understand why
Is there still time to save the Open University from slow strangulation?
Plans to cut staff and courses threaten the OU’s specific mission of making tertiary education open to all. More...
Universities offer to maintain pension benefits while peace talks continue
Universities UK makes offer in order to end 14 days of disruptive strike action until end of summer term. More...
Cambridge University reveals 15% gender pay gap
Top universities report big disparity between male and female employees’ earnings. More...
Cambridge Analytica academic's work upset university colleagues
One of the world’s best universities is coming under increased pressure over how it handled concerns raised about the mass data harvesting at the heart of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, after a cache of emails revealed heated exchanges between senior academics involved. More...
Worries grow about the survival of the Open University
Unfortunately, the situation at the Open University is far worse than you reported (Open University plans major cuts to number of staff and courses, 22 March). Despite the university’s warm words about working with academics, the relationship between the vice-chancellor’s executive and the academic body is now characterised by deep mutual contempt. More...
St Andrews hits out at Spanish bid to extradite Catalan academic
University ‘deeply concerned’ after former Catalan minister Clara Ponsatí named in warrant. More...
My father founded the Open University – here’s how to save it
In November 2016 I was invited to speak at an Open University reception in London celebrating the launch of a new chair of economics named after my late father, Harold Wilson, who, together with Jennie Lee, brought the Open University into being in the 1960s. More...
Safe spaces used to inhibit free speech on campuses, inquiry finds
Bureaucracy and confused guidance limit free speech, although problem not ‘pervasive’. More...
‘They’re trying to take away our rights.’ How much power should students have?
The government is reviewing fees and assessing universities’ value for money. We ask whether it is involving all the right people. More...
