Inflation forces record drop in real-terms pay on US academics
In bleak assessment, AAUP finds full-time wages up 2 per cent, but down 5 per cent after inflation, falling below recession levels

In bleak assessment, AAUP finds full-time wages up 2 per cent, but down 5 per cent after inflation, falling below recession levels

Choice of former Darpa director to replace Lander affirms growing government-wide shift towards emphasising applied research

Despite known risk, politicians from states with weak science records push dramatic expansion of affirmative-action-style set-asides for federal dollars

Western scholars may be taken aback by job negotiations in a country where universities rarely reward merit over seniority

Position will be used to ‘keep universities on a shorter leash’ and ‘pre-empt any potential dissent’, academics say

Australian educators demand ‘clarity’ on whether pandemic concessions will be extended

There is always more to a research question than the underpinning science. So work with the people you are studying, says Nicola Ray

Korea’s soft power is only part of the explanation, with Seoul pumping millions into opening Korean language academies around the world, professor says

Female scholars grossly under-represented on editorial boards of public health and environmental science publications, says Cambridge-led study

University’s ‘strong’ financial results energise union calls for job security and pay rises

Shift prestigious institutions to ‘greater potential’ of education for excluded adults, says FT columnist

Peking and Tsinghua join drive to smooth journey from undergraduate to postgraduate studies

Critics say plans to lower the limit on temporary staff from 40 per cent to 8 per cent are unworkable and could lock in under-qualified lecturers

Leading professor proposes charter to protect free exchange of knowledge

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse chancellor discusses the importance of role models for students, his approach to hiring top staff and how he has stayed in the role for 15Â years