Is mentoring the elixir of academic life?
The importance of senior faculty advising junior colleagues on their career trajectories is increasingly emphasised. But is guidance – and the giving of it – being fairly shared? Should mentoring...
The importance of senior faculty advising junior colleagues on their career trajectories is increasingly emphasised. But is guidance – and the giving of it – being fairly shared? Should mentoring...
Light-touch treatment of one of universities’ fundamental roles leaves too many questions hanging, observers worry
The global picture is changing, as five countries enter the ranking for the first time – all of them in Africa. Rosa Ellis reports
Data useful ‘if considered in context’, Australian university says, but union insists its publication is ‘dangerous’
Industrial relations umpire overturns finding that information implicitly identifies individual staff
It’s a balancing act, as some crave company and others isolation, but most vice-chancellors want their people back ‘as often as possible’
Campus reopening plans not such a hot issue Down Under, but key questions still need to be resolved
Critics say draft benchmarks for assessment of scholarly activity are overprescriptive, exclusionary and onerous
No one would want to repeat 2020. But perhaps there are ways it will leave us better prepared for the future
The past 12 months will live long in the memory, for all the wrong reasons. But as 2020 nears its end amid fairy lights and optimism about vaccines, six academics tell us the bright spots they...
Commentators express doubts over Canberra’s online road to post-pandemic prosperity
Neoliberal administrators’ policing of institutional reputations and academic colleagues’ condemnation of dissenting voices on issues such as race and gender have led to claims that scholars are...
Rejection can be felt more intensely in academia because of the level of personal investment – but it is a normal and necessary aspect of any career
Time running out for clarity on course subsidies, experts warn
Community attitudes questionnaire also finds that Australians want caps on international students but not domestic students