Academic advice: where to find it, and how to get the most out of it
We all need good advice 鈥 the problem is making sure you know where to find it, and how to accept it, says John Tregoning
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What is it really like to head up a university department?
Seven academic leaders share their experiences at the departmental helm along with their tips on how to squeeze the best out of sceptical staff and meagre budgets 鈥 and still find time for research
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Academics put job offers on ice over Brexit vote
Fears that Britain will leave the EU are deterring academics from taking up posts at UK universities, says Universities UK president Dame Julia Goodfellow
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What are you reading? 鈥 16 June 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Postdoc reforms 'don't go far enough'
The Spanish government is to improve conditions for young researchers - but not nearly enough, says the country's Young Researchers' Federation (FJI). From January 2004, PhD students and...
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Arts postdocs lead the pack in job stakes
Postdoctoral researchers in the social sciences and humanities are twice as likely to secure permanent posts in their universities than those in the biological and physical sciences, official figures...
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Do academics interfere in their children鈥檚 higher education?
Seven scholars relate how they stepped back or stepped in as they saw fit, while one contributor鈥檚 daughter describes the flip side
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Asia Universities Summit: KAUST head heralds 'amazing progress'
Jean-Lou Chameau says new institution has established 'remarkable' research record since opening and has not been influenced by Saudi Arabian cultural issues聽
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Stern might change the rules, but the REF game is still a game
Kirsty Rolfe says the portability proposal does nothing to ease the fears and worries of young researchers struggling to start careers
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Interview with Bertil Andersson
We speak to the head of聽Nanyang Technological University about the rise of Asia, what it鈥檚 like being a European leading a Singaporean institution, and barbecue chicken
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Princeton academic's 'failure CV' sparks debate on success
Johannes Haushofer lists failures in attempt to 'balance the record' on how he climbed the greasy pole of academia
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The 25 most-read 糖心Vlog articles of 2015
The most popular higher education articles of the year, based on website traffic
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UCL expenses rules mean staff seen as 鈥榠nherently untrustworthy鈥
University revises policy after backlash from academics
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Postdoctoral researchers to be made Cambridge alumni
Former postdoctoral researchers will now be counted as alumni at the University of Cambridge
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Let the right ones in
I am quite shocked that the number of 鈥済host鈥 authors is so high and that there are therefore a significant number of academics who are cutting out graduate students and postdocs from receiving...