Philosophy of Physics Reading Group  ​The Philosophy of Physics Reading Group (hosted by University College Dublin) invites anyone interested in exploring the philosophy of physics—regardless of...

As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...

Russell Group universities are axing jobs and cutting courses as the sector faces a financial crisis fuelled by a drop in international students

Staff at the University of Nottingham will strike on 30th September and 1st October, as the University's governing Council meets to decide the final Future Nottingham Phase 2 (FN2) restructuring plans...

Member of the UCU union back a strike over proposals to cut 200 jobs at the University of Sussex.

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As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance

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It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our honorary colleague, John Bone, a distinguished, well-regarded and extremely popular member of the Department of Economics and Related Studie...

Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year

Abstract. This paper presents two ways in which one might try to evade the epistemic objection to growing block models of time. These are offered, inter al

Last December, all of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature’s Journal of Philosophical Logic resigned and formed Philosophical Logic, a new "diamond" open-access journal (detai...

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

Leading department being in the firing line shows how changing student preferences are fundamentally reshaping universities

This paper reflects on experiences teaching courses on women thinkers from antiquity and the medieval period. The discussion is built around a proposed syllabus (similar to one used in teaching at ...

We, the undersigned, call on the University of Nottingham to reverse its plans to impose compulsory redundancies on its staff in the Department of Philosophy. The University threatens to cut around o...

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The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...

A philosopher at the University of Nottingham calls my attention to this: He summarizes the situation as follows: – the removal of just over 600 FTE posts, if necessary through compulsor…

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Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire

The University of Nottingham says it is facing

Institution says it could run out of money by 2031 and wants to cut more than 600 academic and support posts Thousands of staff at the University of Nottingham have been told to prepare for redundancy as part of swingeing financial cuts that academics say will harm the institution’s future. The university’s administration sent letters to 2,700 staff on Tuesday, notifying them their role was at risk of redundancy after its leadership said it could run out of money by 2031. Continue reading...