Postgraduate and early-career

Countries such as the UK and Germany could see benefit to their research bases, event hears

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski tells young scholars to focus on research and ignore ‘shitty job market’

Brian Schmidt says academia is losing brightest researchers because they cannot endure ‘intolerable’ precarity throughout their thirties

A new survey of employers raises questions about the labour market value of higher degrees, says Tristram Hooley

Analysis suggests as many as half of the main influencers of depression and anxiety have their roots in the student-supervisor dynamic

Increasing number of female evaluators on committees could put more emphasis on long-term outcomes, says researcher

Working-class graduates half as likely to move to Oxford, Cambridge or elite London institutions

Former colleagues call for investigations to disclose what Strathclyde and Heriot-Watt universities knew about Kevin O’Gorman’s conduct

‘Macquarie model’ credited with cutting attrition and accelerating completion, and is now being emulated elsewhere

First Complete University Guide survey since Augar review raises prospect of domestic master’s fees overtaking annual charges for undergraduates

University says scheme will give junior academics ‘opportunity to experience life as a full-time lecturer’, but critics suspect REF link

Early career academics dismayed to see 20 per cent threshold for independent projects and personal development dropped from UK guidelines

特里莎·格林哈尔与埃德·霍金斯声称，奖助金申请者因不愿意换工作场所而遭到排挤可能涉及深层次不公平

Those lucky established academics who want to help precarious colleagues would do better to pay for their lunch, says Sarah Burton

The banning of certain academic books by prisons in Northern Ireland is deeply counterproductive, says Dieter Reinisch

Asking people to prepare for a 10-week course that might not run is too much, says an anonymous early career academic

Provision of teacher residencies and mentoring by universities seen as key to long-term science improvement

Starting again from scratch every October causes no end of stress, mix-ups and wasted time, says one hourly paid lecturer

Trump-dominated panel bolsters campuses that reject postgraduate unions

Swiss university has signed San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which says academics should not be judged on the journals they publish in

Liverpool pro vice-chancellor says new positions would be step between PhDs and traditional postdoctoral posts

Identical CVs with different names on them sent to 250 academics in experiment

V-c who chairs financial sustainability group warns that deficit on doctoral training raises major questions

The unaffordability of two rents severely restricts the study options of care leavers and estranged students, says Roy Celaire 

Vacataire status means not only low pay, but six-month waits between wages, says the Confederation of Young Researchers

Supervisors’ supportiveness, not their academic ability, found to be key driver of satisfaction in survey

More than 1,200 people sign letter supporting Feyzi Ismail in her dispute with SOAS University of London

Certification scheme will give academics the recognition they deserve, says initiative’s architect

Improving the culture surrounding mental health for postgraduates and PhD students also crucial to maintaining a healthy research system, Chris Skidmore tells leaders

Hundreds sign petition calling for teaching post to receive salary in July and August

Trend reflects growing gap between PhD completions and academic job availability

Data on almost 2,500 computer scientists in US and Canada suggest ‘prestige’ of PhD institution does not influence number of papers they later produce

Fractures emerge between Democratic candidates – but they, and even Republicans, actually share broad concerns on affordability

Pam Denicolo, Dawn Duke and Julie Reeves answer some of the most common questions preoccupying doctoral candidates about the biggest day of their career to date

The relationship between PhD students and their supervisors is often said to be the most intense in the academy, with huge implications for student success. Yet most supervisors receive little if any training. Here, six academics give their take on how to approach it 

The recent death of politics academic David Held left Alix Dietzel shocked and guilty. Why did no one warn her she could feel like that?