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...
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...
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...
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
Institution’s Canadian leader tackles executive remuneration, Brexit and diversifying the university’s student intake in THE interview
Academics are likely to be happier at work if their research involves scholars away from their institution, study reveals
Just like Hollywood and Parliament, academia has entrenched power hierarchies. It can’t pretend that sexual harassment doesn’t take place
Holly Else reveals the results of a THE poll seeking to uncover the extent of authorship abuses as well as views on what criteria should generate credit
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....
Instead of spending time competing for competitive funding, academics should be given a lump sum, paper suggests
Association’s annual meeting discusses teaching in ‘red’ states and need for domestic research
̽»¨ÊÓƵ’s first major global survey of university staff views on work-life balance finds academics feeling stressed and underpaid, and struggling to fit time for personal relationships...
Academia often treats leavers as failures, but some of our smartest scholars are starting to see walking away as liberation, writes Inger Mewburn
Poor job security a major issue in survey of chemist and physicist PhD graduates, writes Paul Jump
Generous leave packages used as a strategy to retain top female researchers in elite institutions, study suggests