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Sarah Crook reflects on what it costs early career researchers to wait years to hear whether journals want to publish their articles

Seasoned scholars offer tips on first lectures, the ‘Eton mess’ of PhD supervision and why hobbies belong at work

Scholarship is about valuing things that can’t be counted and shouldn’t be rushed, says Adam Benjamin Smith

University of Essex vice-chancellor Anthony Forster outlines his university’s plans for postgraduates who take on teaching responsibilities – a thorny issue for the UK higher education sector

Graduate teachers will be placed on the university’s pay scale and receive the same employment benefits as other staff

Why are postgraduates and postdocs so expendable and professors so untouchable, asks a geneticist subjected to a paranoid boss’ abuse

The proposal to end the portability of research outputs could penalise ECRs, writes Nick Wright

Many doctoral candidates feel poorly looked after. More awareness and empathy from academics can help fight that, says Geoffrey Cantor

Competition for postdoctoral fellowships is fierce, so your application needs to stand out as realistic, coherent and compelling. Here, five Stanford University scientists reveal 10 tips from their own experiences when attempting to secure a place

Kirsty Rolfe says the portability proposal does nothing to ease the fears and worries of young researchers struggling to start careers

European researchers call for a ‘radical reorganisation’ to help undergraduates and PhD students access grants

The ‘university-educated expert’ v ‘common man’ conflict cements the notion that higher study is not for the poor, says Ryan Coogan

Asking applicants for academic posts to submit references from supervisors can lead to exploitation; the practice needs to end, says Sanjay Pulipaka

Sub-Saharan Africa’s first online university will help other institutions in the region to embrace technology, says co-founder

In academia, and more widely, women are too easily relegated to the ‘less competent than men’ category, writes Dame Athene Donald

Some believe the momentous referendum result may harm the UK’s ability to compete for the world’s best PhD students

Lack of progression may help to explain BME under-representation in academic workforce

Plans to allow graduates of France’s most elite higher education institutions to claim the title of PhD without taking a viva have enraged some Gallic scholars

Fewer students expected to come to UK from Continent in wake of Brexit

A review at the University of Nottingham found many doctoral students were unsure where to turn for help

Danish academic says that building a knowledge economy is no longer a ‘dominant wish’ for country leaders

Doctoral supervisors are having to adapt to a new power dynamic with their students, conference will hear

Friendships can blossom naturally between scholars and students, but are they always problematic? Nina Kelly navigates the boundaries

Institutions face losing up to a quarter of their total funding council grant as cuts from Welsh government bite

Specialist language in scientific literature can put people off. Doctoral candidate Michelle Reeve asks: is it really necessary?

Giulio Regeni’s murder poses difficult questions for the sector on what doctoral students’ research should entail

How can it be that experienced, full-time lecturers teaching huge classes at Canadian universities can be on such low salaries that they officially qualify as “poor”?, asks Andrew W. Robinson

Most research isn't rocket science, so just do your best, says Beth McMillan

Kristen Burton had achieved her goals, yet had to grasp how profound the transition out of grad school could be

Majority of junior academics are on ‘precarious’ short-term contracts, says UCU report that criticises job insecurity

BRIDGE fellowships build on partnership established between two institutions in 2014

Nicola Hemmings reflects on the slip-ups she made as she built her career in science, and offers advice on how to avoid them

Take it as a compliment if other people are doing similar studies to you, says Sam Schwarzkopf

Ingrid Curl shares simple rules for keeping your work clear and jargon-free

Gaining a PhD is a tough act for most students, so how do those with new babies cope while having the additional demands of parenthood?

Aaron Huertas offers advice on how to overcome perceptions of being cold but competent 

Deborah Netolicky thought that the submission of her PhD was the end, but now she realises that it is just a beginning

Housing crisis in Oxford, Cambridge and London means the cost of loan and joint equity schemes has tripled in past five years

Joint PhD programmes that split doctoral studies between different universities may help to improve low outward mobility

Shahidha Bari on Sheryl Sandberg, sex discrimination and university exploitation

Reflecting on the plight of the early career scholar prompts Xenia Schmalz to draw up a research manifesto

The final few months of a PhD can often be the hardest, so here are a few tips from a doctoral candidate who recently submitted her thesis

Doctoral student Ana Kedveš asked her colleagues to submit the strangest questions they have faced

From the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to special needs education in the UK, more mid-career professionals are taking professional doctorates

Italian ambassador to UK ‘expects truth to be established’ in the ‘heinous killing’ of Cambridge PhD student

Global higher education programmes should respond to our unstable world, says Martin Hall

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

Former international rugby player Colin Gregor is one of a growing number of students to balance a PhD with a career

Kingston study finds that less affluent learners are more concerned about debt, and unlikely to be able to rely on their parents for support

Chief scientist at UK arm of French electronics giant Thales says big business is frustrated at retention rates for such students

Immigration policy puts at risk 'valuable resources', argues Fiona Whelan

Major survey looks at experiences of 72,000 UK postgraduates

Debt could be repaid if students stay in Scotland to work after course finishes

The most popular higher education articles of the year, based on website traffic

Life sciences PhD candidates believe they are owed money for teaching undergraduates as a condition of funding

Clearly describing the inefficient and damaging situation might point the way to better alternatives, says Eric Silverman

Blurring the lines between supervisor and friend can cause difficulties for academics and students alike, says study by Finnish researchers

Labour’s Iain Wright says PM ‘needs to decide what’s best for Britain’

Initially sceptical about the continental practice of examining a doctoral thesis before an audience, David Bogle has found much to commend it

Tricks of presenting a successful academic conference paper are revealed by co-author of a popular public speaking guide