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As the Employment Rights Bill continues to work its way through Parliament, universities should be considering how the shift towards stronger protections for individuals will affect them and what changes they need to make to their existing practices and procedures.

The UK Higher Education sector is facing a financial crisis. Real-term declines in tuition income, volatile international student enrolment and increasing operational costs are placing HE providers under acute pressure. In response, collaboration between HE providers is being explored as a means to maintain viability.

Charity law can impact on a wide range of university projects, activities and decisions in ways that are not always obvious and sometimes overlooked.

2021 saw several changes to Permitted Development Rights for universities in England. These allow universities to carry out certain types of development without needing full planning permission. Instead they can use a faster process called prior approval.

New materials might seem safe but, in the absence of positive, detailed evidence of safety, it is best to assume they might not be. Here are some compliance areas you could find beneficial to add to your project compliance checklist.

Where food provision is outsourced, your University wants to be comfortable that you have the contractual levers in place to make sure that delivery by your caterer meets your, and your students' expectations.