Do new mothers doing a PhD get enough support?
Gaining a PhD is a tough act for most students, so how do those with new babies cope while having the additional demands of parenthood?
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Academics put job offers on ice over Brexit vote
Fears that Britain will leave the EU are deterring academics from taking up posts at UK universities, says Universities UK president Dame Julia Goodfellow
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What are you reading? – 16 June 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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How I stripped away postdoc depression
Simon Francis found himself with a PhD in one hand, a toilet brush in the other - and no desire for academic life A year ago, the sense of achievement that my doctorate had once given me had reached...
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Adviser helps postdocs get on the right track
Anne Forde recently took up a post at Cambridge University as a careers adviser dedicated to supporting postdoctoral researchers in the life sciences, writes Olga Wojtas. Cambridge has about 500...
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Do academics interfere in their children’s higher education?
Seven scholars relate how they stepped back or stepped in as they saw fit, while one contributor’s daughter describes the flip side
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Bid to put postdocs into schools
A scheme to put postdocs into schools was launched by prime minister Tony Blair yesterday. The collaboration between schools, universities and industry aims to inspire an interest in science by...
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Asia Universities Summit: KAUST head heralds 'amazing progress'
Jean-Lou Chameau says new institution has established 'remarkable' research record since opening and has not been influenced by Saudi Arabian cultural issuesÂ
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Interview with Bertil Andersson
We speak to the head of Nanyang Technological University about the rise of Asia, what it’s like being a European leading a Singaporean institution, and barbecue chicken
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Stern might change the rules, but the REF game is still a game
Kirsty Rolfe says the portability proposal does nothing to ease the fears and worries of young researchers struggling to start careers
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Princeton academic's 'failure CV' sparks debate on success
Johannes Haushofer lists failures in attempt to 'balance the record' on how he climbed the greasy pole of academia
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UCL expenses rules mean staff seen as ‘inherently untrustworthy’
University revises policy after backlash from academics
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The 25 most-read ߣߣÊÓƵ articles of 2015
The most popular higher education articles of the year, based on website traffic
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Postdoctoral researchers to be made Cambridge alumni
Former postdoctoral researchers will now be counted as alumni at the University of Cambridge
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Is research a fertile hunting ground for narcissists?
A new book by Bruno Lemaitre considers whether science is suffering from being led by the self-obsessed