Are teaching and research mutually exclusive?
Is the 4* researcher who is also a stellar teacher a realistic expectation? 糖心Vlog surveyed academics to find out. Jack Grove reports
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Tips for those tough post-PhD, pre-postdoc days
Doing everything you can to keep a 鈥渢oehold鈥 in your field while looking for postdoctoral positions was one of the pieces of advice offered at a session on life after the PhD at a conference last...
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The place of unions in the academy
From the largest strike in the history of UK higher education, to the US 鈥榓cademic precariat鈥 looking to unionise to improve their conditions, Jack Grove assesses the changing influence of workers鈥...
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Interview with Caroline Dean
The biologist on how a box of tulip bulbs encouraged her to research plants and why聽women must expand their comfort zone聽
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Fresh anger over UK visa regime as scholar forced to leave Oxford
糖心Vlog Office decision to decline a visa for postgraduate researcher鈥檚 22-month-old baby sparks anguish at laboratory 鈥榮truggling鈥 to recruit
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We need a middle path to data democracy
There must be greater permeability between universities and tech giants if we want to protect data from corporate interests and use it for the public good
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A salamander and a Star Trek uniform: perfect Christmas gifts for academics
Got some last minute scholarly Christmas shopping to do? Glen Wright has got your back
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Postdoc blues
How disappointing that you call postdoctoral researchers "students" ("Get a life? Not with our hours", THES , August 22). They are highly qualified professionals, many world experts in their fields....
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Everyday epiphanies: six academics recall turning points in their careers
Determination to make your own way is key to success in academia, but scholars鈥 research, teaching and even their lives can be transformed by a chance encounter or event
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The big push: are PhDs too tough?
Study suggests聽doctorates are now seen as a test of character rather than intellect
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What is it like to take a leadership role at a university?
Senior management has its perks but it also comes with a host of new practical, philosophical, psychological and even physical challenges. Here, seven people who have lived through that fiery baptism...
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Are research institutes islands of excellence?
Independent research institutes are hailed as hothouses for cutting-edge science, but they seem to be falling out of fashion. Rachael Pells asks if concentrating research in universities is a better...
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鈥業 understand anger over v-c pay鈥, says new Cambridge head
Institution鈥檚 Canadian leader tackles executive remuneration, Brexit and diversifying the university鈥檚 student intake in聽THE interview
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Is the academy too close to Silicon Valley?
The entanglement of the university and tech worlds faces increased scrutiny following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Could joint positions in industry and academia offer a workable and ethically...
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The week in higher education 鈥 25 January 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world鈥檚 media