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Provost says institution 'must do better' as independent researchers find focus on excellence has had 'negative impact' alongside top results

Latest EUA doctoral council chair says open science very much on his agenda for the role

University staff may often write letters of recommendation in a very gendered way, warns Dame Athene Donald

UK universities can now ‘feel confident’ in recruiting postgraduate students for 2017-18, says RCUK chair

Five top European academics offer advice on how to mentor, manage and expand a research team

Minority groups still not represented at professorial level by 2080, study suggests

Male scholars turn to alcohol to stave off impostor feelings

Our experts reveal how they seek to choose the right person for the job when faced with a pile of flawless CVs and glowing references

Students and lecturers join forces for a national demonstration over cuts, fee rises and the plight of EU staff and students post-Brexit

In the first of a new series of articles, leading academics and university administrators will share tips on how to get ahead in higher education. Here, those involved in hiring explain how to handle a Skype interview

It’s not just EU nationals that universities should worry about losing, says Timothy Devinney, and a shrinking pound won’t help

What links the anxious, fearful undergraduate and the anxious, fearful academic? Pervasive precarity, argues Matthew Vernon

Scholars share what the title means to them and offer the newly promoted advice on handling the status update

As meritocratic approach to education finds favour in UK, academic argues its dystopian original meaning has come to pass in China

UUK must help advance equality at the front of the lecture hall through loan write-offs and conferences, says Geraldine Van Bueren

We all need good advice – the problem is making sure you know where to find it, and how to accept it, says John Tregoning

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

Graduate teachers will be placed on the university’s pay scale and receive the same employment benefits as other staff

A new report suggests standards by which departments may consider social media and other public communications in promotion decisions

Internal analysis finds women earn 10.5 per cent less than men of similar experience and research productivity

Christopher Phelps surveys a field that lends itself to interdisciplinarity, while a British scholar laments that UK institutions prefer Americans for Americanists

Headhunters are far from lazy and harmful, says Kim Frost, who uses them all the time

Walking supervision sessions around Birmingham and pub-based academic chats have won praise from PhD candidates

Competition for postdoctoral fellowships is fierce, so your application needs to stand out as realistic, coherent and compelling. Here, five Stanford University scientists reveal 10 tips from their own experiences when attempting to secure a place

Lacking insight and seeking only enrichment, search firms deliver obvious, uninspiring candidates, argues a business school professor

‘Too early’ to say if employer and employee contributions will have to be increased again, says chief executive

Effectiveness and impact of one-day strikes targeted at university graduation and open days also questioned by expert and employers

Sites like Patreon and Kickstarter allow backers to fund independent scholars, but for now, the sums are small

Progressing from junior faculty to tenured professor is extremely difficult, but following ‘action-oriented’ competencies can help, research suggests

Eight years ago, Carol Hay and John Kaag took the same position at the same university, and their lives since then offer fascinating insight into academic career progression 

All scientists can improve their writing skills by realising that they need to sell as well as tell the story, says author of new guide

Scholars should cheer up and learn to take the rough with the smooth, says John Tregoning

New book explores the anxieties of Peking and Tsinghua students caught between their parents, the Communist Party and new Western ideas about education

Academic precarity is a special kind of ‘torture’, observes Siobhan O'Dwyer, but scholarly life is not all doom and gloom

Johannes Haushofer lists failures in attempt to 'balance the record' on how he climbed the greasy pole of academia

Most research isn't rocket science, so just do your best, says Beth McMillan

Campus staff will have to report their whereabouts to managers when they leave their ‘normal place of work’ for a morning or afternoon

Tim Softley, Peter Schiffer and Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela explain the benefits of a transatlantic partnership

Asked how they would like to be remembered, high-achieving physicists cited intellectual accomplishments while others referred to personal qualities

Analysis reveals some disciplines could leave graduates at a much greater risk of being replaced by machines in the future

Take it as a compliment if other people are doing similar studies to you, says Sam Schwarzkopf

Graduate start-ups also show employment and turnover growth, although fewer are being founded

Kieran Fenby-Hulse asks whether being gay limits opportunities for researchers

Rejection hurts more when you don't have a long-term contract to fall back on, says Helen Lees

Elite universities are unhappy that new rules targeting charities and big business will hit institutions hard, says Wendy Piatt

Getting a permanent job is only the beginning, not a fairy-tale ending, says Helen De Cruz

Pervasive claims that non-native speakers of English are unfairly discriminated against by publishers are rebutted by linguistics expert

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?

Ucea says additional payroll pressures and market instability means uplift is ‘at the limit of affordability’ for many institutions

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Several research-intensive universities are on list, but many institutions dispute the findings

Winston Morgan explores what his career might reveal about the position of ethnic minority academics

As the social media platform celebrates its 10th anniversary, Jack Grove examines how it has changed doctoral study

Non-EU citizens took one in five new posts over past decade, leaving 40 per cent of posts for UK researchers, Hefce figures show

A new law to support early career researchers has reopened arguments over limits on the use of short-term contracts in the country

Institutions are criticised in UCU report for allowing 'shameful levels of pay inequality' to persist

Professor Webley was ‘inspired leader’ and will be ‘sorely missed’, say colleagues of the acclaimed academic

The share of women in management or governor roles has steadily increased over the past two years, analysis shows

Matthew Reisz reflects on the challenges of the obituary writer

Heather Mendick shares her experience of escaping the constraints of the university