Reliance on foreign PhD students 鈥榗ould harm US research鈥
Data show US has relatively low number of domestic PhD graduates, leaving it reliant on potentially fragile international recruitment
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End 鈥楶lan B鈥 talk about jobs outside academia, says minister
Improving the culture surrounding mental health for postgraduates and PhD students also crucial to maintaining a healthy research system, Chris Skidmore聽tells leaders
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Are research links with the developing world still a one-way street?
Researchers in developing countries have often been confined to minor roles as translators and data gatherers. But there are signs that the scales are tipping. Simon Baker considers the extent and...
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Failing better: How to live with academic rejection
Academics鈥 deep identification with their work means that the failure of a book proposal, grant application or promotion request can cut deeply. But in a competitive profession, such knock-backs are...
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Step out of your comfort zone, try discipline-based educational research
Discipline-based educational research can challenge academics to think about their fields in new ways and can deliver unique benefits to learners, write five scholars
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The postdoc鈥檚 dilemma: when to give up on romance and file for divorce?
For most young researchers, academic research is the love of their life. But how much can and should be sacrificed for this love?, asks Sibylle Anderl
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Working long hours should not be demonised
Individuals should be able to choose their own work-life balance depending on their life situation and level of ambition, says Lee Cronin
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US-based academic who 鈥榟ad job in China鈥 faces fraud charges
Researcher could face decades in prison if found guilty
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Cambridge centre for postdocs opens
The University of Cambridge has opened a new postdoctoral centre for early career researchers.
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Difficult times for international students in the US
International students have long been central to American research, innovation and knowledge exchange. Yet today a combination of changing legislation, regulation and attitudes is excluding many and...
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Letters 鈥 14 March 2019
Cheats: address the game, not just the players From what I have observed, three factors have led to the rise of essay mills (鈥淪hould students who use essay mills be criminalised?鈥, News, 7 March)....
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Oxford partners with Legal & General on 拢4 billion development plan
Financial services firm bills聽plan for 3,000 homes and two science parks聽as model for how UK universities can聽help modernise cities
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What鈥檚 in a name? Bias against female and minority applicants
Identical CVs with different names on them sent to 250 academics in experiment
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Academic uses film to raise plight of Sierra Leone diamond miners
Researcher hopes showing at United Nations will spur further action to help the most disadvantaged聽artisans