Breaking: Gillian Keegan is Westminster govt's 5th education secretary in 4 months, while Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP is business secretary and Suella Braverman MP is back as home secretary timeshighereducation.com/news/gillian-k…

Gillian Keegan MP Gillian Keegan has been appointed Secretary of State for Education @EducationGovUK.

#Reshuffle

Breaking: Kit Malthouse departs as education secretary timeshighereducation.com/news/kit-malth… via John Morgan

Breaking: Jacob Rees-Mogg resigns as business secretary timeshighereducation.com/news/jacob-ree… via John Morgan

Further increases in university pay would 'put jobs at risk', claims UCEA in response to UCU strike vote timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-set-se…

Many purported benefits of “flipped” learning stem from repetition or increased exposure to content and could easily be replicated in a regular classroom, find Manu Kapur John Hattie tanmay sinha & Irina Grossman timeshighereducation.com/news/flipped-l… via Thomas Williams

'It’s 150 bosses against 70,000 university workers who are ready and willing to bring the entire sector to a standstill, if serious negotiations don’t start very soon,' says Jo Grady timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-set-se…

Breaking: UK universities set for sector-wide strikes after UCU gets historic 'yes' votes in pay and pensions disputes timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-set-se… via Thomas Williams #ucuRISING

Breaking: UCU members vote for sector-wide strike action over pensions, 84.9% of members vote 'yes' on 60.2% turnout #ucuRISING

Breaking: UCU members vote for sector-wide strike action over pay, 81.1% of members vote 'yes' on 57.8% turnout #ucuRISING

Scholarly publishers must become increasingly wary about journals that achieve staggeringly high increases in their publication rates, Nick Wise tells Jack Grove timeshighereducation.com/news/beware-ba…

Dutch trials of shorter academic years could give staff back a month of research time timeshighereducation.com/news/netherlan… via Ben Upton

.vivienne stern looking to build consensus that 'things can't go on like this' on UK university funding, and on agreeing long-term solutions, as Universities UK chief exec. Interview with John Morgan timeshighereducation.com/news/things-ca…

“Cultivate champions at the heart of government” and address “sores that reduce enthusiasm for further investment” to defend university budgets, Iain Mansfield says timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-sector… via John Morgan

Universities 'relieved' as Suella Braverman's resignation seen as reducing risk of shift to more restrictive international student regime timeshighereducation.com/news/v-cs-reli… via Paddy Jack

Advocating for a particular view in your academic work is fine (I do this). Actively refusing to engage with anyone who thinks differently to you is not: it’s inimical to the exercise of scholarship.
timeshighereducation.com/blog/activist-…

People in UK who have housed or are working with Ukrainian refugees offered free online course on country’s culture and language by The Open University timeshighereducation.com/news/open-univ… via Thomas Williams

US undergraduate enrolment fell another 1.1 per cent this semester, although the annual decline has slowed to pre-Covid levels timeshighereducation.com/news/us-enrolm… via Paul Basken

UK universities think generating revenue is the most important benefit of transnational education for their country, finds British Council study timeshighereducation.com/news/revenue-m… via Paddy Jack