Can you combine a PhD and a full-time job? Yes, but it can be challenging
Doing a part-time doctoral degree while working full-time is rewarding, but it can be demanding, says Pat Culhane
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Deep budget cuts on menu for Australian sector
Diplomatic dinner celebrating US-Australian relations is only the entrée to a full-blown battle over funding cuts that has put the demand-driven system on ice, says John Ross
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Brexit: fear and opportunity for European researchers
Study from UCL’s Centre for Global ÌÇÐÄVlog sheds light on continental perspectives on the UK’s decision to leave the European Union
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Don’t let Brexit divide Europe’s students
Students in the UK who are angered and alienated by Brexit must find new ways to collaborate with their European counterparts, says Laura Chiorean
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Disaster-struck universities to collaborate on ‘climate resilience’
New university network will see institutions pool resources to cope with impact of hurricanes and tropical cyclones
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USS strike: academics are wrong to walk out
The university strikes are a militant campaign that attacks the very heart of learning as the union propaganda makes clear, says John Marenbon
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Anti-Brexit historians must dare to be political
Historians must not let Boris Johnson and other armchair scholars take centre stage in their discipline, says Tanja Bueltmann
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Is it time to nationalise academic publishers?
With state intervention back in vogue, and publishers’ profit margins still sky-high, journals could be the next monopoly to come under scrutiny
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Journal board resigns in protest at editor’s dismissal
Associate editors and board members for Building Research & Information label forced change in editorship ‘arbitrary and unnecessary’
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Most English providers to be unregulated after OfS rules redrawn
Regulator bows to pressure to scrap ‘basic’ regulation status but stands firm on senior pay reporting rules
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USS strike: partisan players are blocking pension compromise
Too many partisan board members are causing the university pensions dispute to drag on, says Adrian Bell
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Australian opposition promises to restore demand-driven system
But Labor’s Tanya Plibersek fuels concerns that funding could be diverted to further education
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One in three students globally now in private higher education
Quality an ‘urgent concern’ as study reveals significant growth of private sector worldwide
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Interview with Michelle Simmons
The quantum computing pioneer and Australian of the Year talks about growing up in south-east London, creating the new field of atomic electronics and how to get more women into science
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John McDonald, 1937-2018
Stanford business professor with an illustrious alumni ‘family’ remembered