POSTED BY CHARLES PIGOTT | 14 FEBRUARY 2024 Two key rulings on management of academic staff with protected beliefs HE employers and their advisors will need to assess the impact of two significant employment tribunal decisions about senior academics and their protected beliefs. Both claims were partially successful, though for different reasons... Read more Share this article Bookmark this page 3 min read Employment Equality Human rights
POSTED BY ROBERT RENFREE | 31 JANUARY 2024 Coming soon – the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme Under provisions in the National Security Act 2023 expected to come into force later in 2024, individuals and organisations will be required to register certain arrangements involving foreign powers... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
POSTED BY JENNY BERESFORD-JONES | 20 DECEMBER 2023 New procurement thresholds from 1 January 2024 From 1 January 2024, the procurement thresholds under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, the Concessions Contracts Regulations 2016, and the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016, will be revised... Share this article Bookmark this page 1 min read
POSTED BY SIAN JACKSON | 18 DECEMBER 2023 Government consults over minimum service levels in Higher Education The Government has now made good its promise to include Higher Education within the scope of its consultation on minimum service levels in the education sector during industrial action... Share this article Bookmark this page 3 min read
POSTED BY GARY ATTLE | 14 DECEMBER 2023 Higher Education free speech complaints scheme The Office for Students has published two consultations today (14 December 2023) in respect of its incoming obligations under the new legislation... Share this article Bookmark this page 3 min read
POSTED BY GAVIN CARR | 13 DECEMBER 2023 Review of Graduate Route visa announced The Government has announced that the Migration Advisory Committee will be carrying out a review of the Graduate Route... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
POSTED BY SIAN JACKSON | 6 DECEMBER 2023 Financial resilience: voluntary severance schemes As financial pressure continues, we are advising universities on Voluntary Severance (“VS”) schemes to help reduce overheads... Share this article Bookmark this page 4 min read
POSTED BY MATTHEW HOWLING | 23 NOVEMBER 2023 University trustees: duties, liabilities and insurance When money is tight and borrowing expensive, good governance can be crucial to guiding the institution and providing an appropriate level of scrutiny... Share this article Bookmark this page 3 min read
POSTED BY ROBERT RENFREE | 22 NOVEMBER 2023 Failure to prevent fraud offence and changes to the identification principle A new corporate criminal offence of failing to prevent fraud, punishable by unlimited fine, will come into force next year (on a date to be confirmed)... Share this article Bookmark this page 1 min read
POSTED BY GAVIN CARR | 21 NOVEMBER 2023 University financial resilience: UKVI and international students The economic, as well as the broader social and cultural, benefits brought to universities by international students are well known... Share this article Bookmark this page 4 min read
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