Career advice: how to survive your first year as a lecturer
Gavin Buckingham offers new lecturers tips on how to thrive in the pressurised first few months in the job
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‘Don’t copy Welsh funding regime without considering trade-offs’
Hepi paper highlights that ‘progressive’ reforms mean poorer students will have larger debts and less cash in hand than before
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‘Hype’ warning after universities take cryptocurrency cash
Controversial companies are pouring millions into academic research – including on how the industry should be regulated
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Study: millions of students guilty of contract cheating worldwide
Landmark paper charts rapid increase in use of essay mills
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The week in higher education – 30 August 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Expatriate v-c flees Papua New Guinea fearing for his life
Ex-Aberystwyth professor John Warren forced to escape in dead of night
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The pros and cons of REF’s diversity guidance
Dianne Berry and Kim Hackett unpack new guidance for research excellence framework submissions that attempts to ensure staff who have individual circumstances can still contribute to output
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Interview with Maree Teesson
The psychologist talks about jumping ship, putting junior researchers first and why online gaming promotes abstemiousness
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Katie Cannon, 1950-2018
Pioneering scholar of black feminism remembered
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UK researchers’ free money will come at a price after Brexit
With the cost of UK participation in EU research no longer hidden post-Brexit, a robust case for Horizon Europe membership must be made, says Graeme Reid
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Involving early career researchers in conference organisation is good for everyone
Junior scholars need all the experiences they can get, but their digital know-how can also boost the impact of academic events, says Alice Kelly
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Is there alien life, or is it just us in the universe?
There are reasons to be optimistic that we can start to know something about whether life exists elsewhere. But, says Charles Cockell, a more remarkable finding might be that we are exceptional
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ShakesFear and How to Cure It: The Complete Handbook for Teaching Shakespeare, by Ralph Alan Cohen
Peter J. Smith wishes the UK would adopt a US approach to making the Bard more accessible
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What are you reading? – 30 August 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Risky Shores: Savagery and Colonialism in the Western Pacific, by George K. Behlmer
Melanesian cannibals and ‘uncivilised’ natives were feared and fascinating, says Lincoln Allison