Career advice: how to run staff inductions
Virginia King explains how university departments can improve staff inductions to help them hang on to new arrivals

Virginia King explains how university departments can improve staff inductions to help them hang on to new arrivals

The University of South Florida president talks about how her enterprising Ohio upbringing bred confidence and why college sports matter

Study finds that a quarter of students at European universities think internationalisation is of little importance

Cards including details of support services have been designed to fit in wallets and purses

New book says random allocation of places is ‘only way of levelling the education playing field’

Tributes paid to Stanford’s world-leading authority on population genetics

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

For most young Australians, a bachelor’s degree remains a wise investment, says Andrew Norton

Western universities must do much more to meet high-fee-paying Chinese students’ expectations, say Lena Langosch and Wilfred Dolfsma

Conservative forces forget that canons and canonical understandings always evolved as science and society have progressed, says Gurminder Bhambra

Scholars say permanent teaching posts are left vacant as universities rely on ‘ad hoc’ lecturers

Universities are boosting the profile of teaching, supporting pedagogical innovation and tailoring curricula to deliver a more personalised experience, says Sarah Wild

Promoting a research culture and nurturing academics is vital to enable both universities and society to flourish. Sarah Wild reports

Successful partnerships with industry players hinge on location and circumstances, while funding is only part of the picture, says Sarah Wild