Research student allocation must be fair and transparent
Managers must acknowledge that supervising some types of doctoral candidates is more labour-intensive, say Roger Watson and David Thompson
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6 August 2020 digital edition
All for one or one for all? Scholarly prizes and the fixation on lone genius
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Richard Grove, 1955-2020
Tributes paid to a ‘stellar academic’ who was also a ‘remarkable activist’ and ‘great adventurer’
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What is the purpose of prizes?
Some argue that accolades for individuals are outmoded in an age of team science, and reinforce old hierarchies and biases as ‘friends reward friends’
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Winston Churchill: A Life in the News, by Richard Toye
A. W. Purdue considers how Britain’s wartime prime minister was a lifelong master at keeping himself in the public eye
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V-c defends campus construction craze
Without ‘flashy buildings’ and IT systems, university administrators will be ‘pushing bits of paper around’ long into the future, says Monash head
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Paper on attractiveness of women with endometriosis retracted
Italian researchers behind much-criticised 2012 study request its withdrawal and apologise for ‘distress’ and ‘discontent’ caused
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Going underground: research in the bunker with doomsday preppers
Bradley Garrett has crossed the globe to meet those who stockpile food in fortified shelters in anticipation of apocalyptic disasters. As a global pandemic seems to confirm some of their fears, he...
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Interview with Veronica Fynn Bruey
The war survivor with multiple degrees from universities around globe discusses her roles as advocate for refugees and for the understanding of Africa in HE
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Spike in research misconduct feared after Covid disruption
Springer Nature-Digital Science survey reveals that pandemic-hit researchers are more likely to return to old data, which some worry could lead to fraud
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Greening: English policy agenda will ‘level down’ opportunity
Former education secretary attacks ‘short-term, myopic and dysfunctional’ thinking in THE article
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The week in higher education – 6 August 2020
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Science leaders lament ‘insufficient progress’ on tackling bullying
Top researchers call for universities and funders to sign up to new set of principles to stamp out harassment
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GITIS sponsored supplement digital edition
Produced by THE and GITIS. Paid for by GITIS.
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Are academic prizes letting down the team?
‘Every young student of science has had a fantasy about winning a Nobel prize,’ says one laureate – and ever more rival prizes are being established. But with a cast of thousands currently pursuing...