Interview with Rachel Gallery
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Letters – 11 April 2019
Should UCU head be an academic? The general secretary of the University and College Union should be an academic (“Pension tactics central to UCU leadership race”, News, 4 April). A UCU leader should...
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Research intelligence: how to improve team science
Work to encourage team science is gathering momentum, and a recent Academy of Medical Sciences report highlights key steps to be taken
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China: lure of homeland ‘no simple choice’ for expat academics
Personal and pragmatic factors often keep Chinese academics in the West
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Failure is healthy, but pressure to succeed makes it costly to mess up
The idea of mistakes being intrinsic to success has become an educational mantra – but for many students and academics, messing up is not an option
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Postdocs’ career choices swayed by personal values
Research scientists would prefer to align work with own values, study reveals
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Academic freedom fears as China erodes Hong Kong funding divide
Dollars, not diktats, now seen as biggest risk to institutional autonomy in special administrative region
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What universities can do to help pregnant PhD students
Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, Selina Sutton explains what universities are doing wrong (and right) when supporting PhD candidates during pregnancy and beyond
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Letters – 3 January 2019
Online learning has a friendly human face We applaud Paul Le Blanc’s recognition of the “overlooked majority” of students who carry work, family and other responsibilities with them into their...
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Is grade inflation weakening the value of higher education?
Brian Poole asks if grade and credential inflation has resulted in too many degree holders chasing too few jobs
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More postdocs, more data skills top biology sector wish list
Early results of 2014 vulnerable skills survey by BBSRC and MRC highlight concerns and importance of multidisciplinarity
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Three years for PhDs ‘not long enough’
Extended PhDs would be money well spent in the quest for international competitiveness, says leading physicist
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Scholars divulge their biggest mistakes
Six scholars learn the career and life lessons of their greatest academic missteps
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Career advice: how to survive your first year as a lecturer
Gavin Buckingham offers new lecturers tips on how to thrive in the pressurised first few months in the job
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I'm a postdoc - get me out
Want to tread the academic path after a PhD? Are you sure , asks Eleanor Lingham A week before I started my postdoc, I met an old friend whom I hadn't seen since my undergraduate days. He had just...