Online makes the workings of academia harder, not easier
The great loss is the more subtle stuff, such as arching an eyebrow at a pal when Professor X starts droning on, says Athene Donald
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France to investigate academics over ‘Islamo-leftism’
Organisation charged with leading probe says term has no ‘scientific reality’ and is being used to shut down academic discussion of race and colonialism
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Covid recession ‘may force universities to cut overseas fees’
Experts voice caution on prospect of quick bounceback in UK overseas recruitment post-Covid, highlighting issues around affordability and changing competitive landscape
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Meet Aria: ‘high-risk’ research funder to be independent of UKRI
Ministers promise innovative funding models for Advanced Research and Invention Agency following debate on relationship with umbrella body
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MEP backs European careers framework to tackle research precarity
Webinar hears that postdocs are being ‘deprofessionalised’ and encouraged to win grants on behalf of principal investigators
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Five tips for starting an academic career in times of crisis
Due to the 2008 global financial crisis, a long shadow loomed over me and my cohort. Over the medium term, though, most of us made it, says Lucas Lixinski
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Another journal rejection? Put on your helmet
Knock-backs are frequent and unavoidable. But treating referees’ comments with a hard-headed pragmatism lessens the sting, says Adrian Furnham
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ߣߣƵn international education ‘in doldrums until 2023’
Industry operatives’ worst fears could cost universities thousands of staff and country tens of billions of dollars
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Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen, by Carol Dyhouse
Emma Rees enjoys a vivid if familiar exploration of changing attitudes to romance
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International postgraduate enrolment in US universities plummets
Concern tempered by applications and deferrals suggesting post-Covid recovery
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Just imagine the possibilities
Academia jettisoned decades of orthodoxy about how to teach and research overnight when the pandemic hit. What’s stopping it making other transformations?
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Mariana Mazzucato: ‘I was sick of just being told: “You make me happy”’
After her first book, The Entrepreneurial State, catapulted her into the academic stratosphere, the UCL economist has paused her audiences with senior politicians to write a follow-up that uses the...
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Online learning not a green panacea, researchers warn
Estimate of emissions generated by staff and students during lockdown virtually the same as campus commuting
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Interview with Neil Brand
The BBC presenter and composer explains why students need music more than ever and how his drama school training influences his music
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Alexander Forrester, 1935-2021
Tributes paid to a pioneer in the commercialisation of academic research notable for his ‘ferocious work ethic’