What are you reading? – 16 June 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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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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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 issues
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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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Postdoc reforms 'don't go far enough'
The Spanish government is to improve conditions for young researchers - but not nearly enough, says the country's Young Researchers' Federation (FJI). From January 2004, PhD students and...
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The 25 most-read ߣߣƵ articles of 2015
The most popular higher education articles of the year, based on website traffic
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UCL expenses rules mean staff seen as ‘inherently untrustworthy’
University revises policy after backlash from academics
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Arts postdocs lead the pack in job stakes
Postdoctoral researchers in the social sciences and humanities are twice as likely to secure permanent posts in their universities than those in the biological and physical sciences, official figures...
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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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Let the right ones in
I am quite shocked that the number of “ghost” authors is so high and that there are therefore a significant number of academics who are cutting out graduate students and postdocs from receiving...
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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
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Large rate my professor study finds gender bias in comments
University of Illinois research finds ‘brilliant’ or ‘genius’ more often used to describe male academics
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Good scientist or successful academic? You can't be both
Reflecting on the plight of the early career scholar prompts Xenia Schmalz to draw up a research manifesto