What is the happiest academic career stage?
As precarity affects ever more academics for ever longer, many have come to see a permanent position as the gateway to professional happiness. But does it always work out that way? Or do the...
As precarity affects ever more academics for ever longer, many have come to see a permanent position as the gateway to professional happiness. But does it always work out that way? Or do the...
With some academics being willing to oust those they disagree with, self-censorship is a huge, unacknowledged problem, says James Tooley
The UK’s research excellence framework is slow, expensive and disruptive. The time and technology is ripe for a better alternative, says James Tooley
Determination to make your own way is key to success in academia, but scholars’ research, teaching and even their lives can be transformed by a chance encounter or event
An annual scrap for survival in English universities’ elite grouping could make for compelling TV viewing, suggests James Tooley