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

Data show US has relatively low number of domestic PhD graduates, leaving it reliant on potentially fragile international recruitment

Improving the culture surrounding mental health for postgraduates and PhD students also crucial to maintaining a healthy research system, Chris Skidmore聽tells leaders

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...

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...

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

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

Individuals should be able to choose their own work-life balance depending on their life situation and level of ambition, says Lee Cronin

Researcher could face decades in prison if found guilty

The University of Cambridge has opened a new postdoctoral centre for early career researchers.

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...
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)....

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

Identical CVs with different names on them sent to 250 academics in experiment

Researcher hopes showing at United Nations will spur further action to help the most disadvantaged聽artisans