PhD students left feeling ‘dehumanised’ and ‘isolated’
US academic urges sector to make doctoral students’ experience ‘more human’

US academic urges sector to make doctoral students’ experience ‘more human’

Head says changes that could lead to 60 redundancies will allow medical school to focus on strengths without harming Welsh healthcare

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
In his first major policy speech as universities and science minister, Jo Johnson spoke about the importance of graduate employability. The idea that you could use this as an indicator of the...
Thank you for the article on the “key issues that local union branches are dealing with” (“Backstage hands”, Features, 25 June). It is important that the hard, mostly voluntary, work that University...
One of the distinguishing features of UK higher education is the way that devolution has allowed England to diverge from the norm as a result of the business model of higher education increasingly...
To help to inform discussions at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, Mark Freeman and Ben Groom surveyed 200 international experts and “asked them how much...
I note an unfortunate confusion between government measures to ban those who may allegedly “radicalise” students on university campuses – which, it is claimed, means encouraging them to support a...

But chancellor’s move to change student loan repayment rules presents risks

The life of an early career researcher is a challenging one, finds Catherine Fletcher, as she heads to city number six

Chancellor George Osborne also announces scrapping of student maintenance grants and plans to make graduates pay more for loans through repayment threshold freeze

You might not think it, but students in the 14th and 15th century could teach today’s cohort a thing or two about tearing up the town, writes Matthew Reisz

Author Jeanette Winterson among 96 signatories of letter to board of governors

Republican presidential hopeful wants radical reform of university system

Pension relief, salary sacrifice schemes and higher education budgets could be targeted by George Osborne, says Jack Grove