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Survey of staff in 10 different countries also suggests general satisfaction with moves overseas, alongside lack of understanding from ‘onshore’ campus staff
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Conscripting industry players into research assessment roles will also turn the grant application process into ‘Frankenstein’s monster’
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Times Higher Education journalists name the academics and administrators at the heart of the sector’s biggest debates
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Is the university really a community?
23/12/2021
As the season of goodwill comes around again, warm words about collegiality and fellowship have been dutifully corralled into all-staff missives from university leaders. But in an era of management, metrics and industrial unrest, does the image of the academy as a commonwealth of scholars still b... -
Interview with Sujit Sivasundaram
23/12/2021
Cambridge professor discusses swapping engineering for history, why researchers overlook the Indian and Pacific oceans, and what it means to offer ‘an environmental lens’ on imperial history -
Students should be able to try out mentors before committing to a years-long relationship, researchers say
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Leaders prioritising regional impact above competition, while significant numbers consider mergers, annual PA Consulting survey suggests
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Do narrative CVs tell the right story?
14/12/2021
A push to end the habit of assessing researchers by their publication metrics is gaining momentum. But are journal impact factors really as meaningless as is claimed? And will requiring scientists to describe their various contributions really improve fairness and rigour – or just bureaucracy? Ja... -
Scrutiny of graduate outcomes is appropriate but the issue is much more complex than arts v science, says Anna Vignoles
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Interview with Alan Davison
14/12/2021
Musicologist waxes lyrical on homeschooling, white fragility and the narrowing of intellectual enquiry -
Majority of respondents to major UK survey show signs of depression but fear that asking for support will harm career
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Fresh ‘wage theft’ claims arise as Australian legislation to combat casualisation fails to scratch the surface
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As the inaugural director of her university’s ’education incubator‘, Sarah Dyer shares insight on supporting teaching innovation among your faculty
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I was shocked when first told I had to teach a ‘shell’ prepared by a colleague a few years ago, but I’m actually growing from the experience, says George Justice
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Interview with Arun Kumar
01/11/2021
The Nottingham historian discusses founding a library in the Indian village where he grew up and the need for alternatives to the ‘false promises of neoliberal education’ -
British academics quitting UK over Brexit
04/10/2021
Some British scholars are following in their European peers’ footsteps in a bid to improve their research opportunities overseas -
Female researchers who socialise less with male colleagues less likely to feel supported in the workplace
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Note-sharing platform accused of cashing in on students uploading teaching materials
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In the third decade of the so-called Asian century, European and North American universities and governments continue to neglect the world’s most populous continent. As Asia grows ever more powerful, this must change, scholars tell Joyce Lau
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Interview with Catherine Hall
04/10/2021
The winner of this year’s Leverhulme Medal discusses what it means to be a feminist historian and how contemporary politics, and a surprising find in Jamaica, changed her research