How to get students to write with confidence
When it comes to putting ideas down on paper, a little good advice can go a very long way, writes Mark Griffiths. Writing is a basic but time-consuming activity in higher education. It is also...
When it comes to putting ideas down on paper, a little good advice can go a very long way, writes Mark Griffiths. Writing is a basic but time-consuming activity in higher education. It is also...
You have spent three years thinking your life will be perfect after you submit your thesis. But it isn’t true, says Petra Boynton
The frenzied pace and meaningless demands of university life can often enable a depressed scholar’s existing neuroses. Joe Moran offers some coping strategies
A new teaching year has just begun in the northern hemisphere. Eight academics reflect on their experience of lecturing, and offer their tips on opening students’ eyes – and keeping them open
Walking on to campus last April, I found the place covered with posters produced by the student counselling service, Nightline. They carried a picture of Frankenstein with the slogan: Revision Time?...
Academics’ deep identification with their work means that the failure of a book proposal, grant application or promotion request can cut deeply. But in a competitive profession, such knock-backs are...
Is your resolution for the new academic year to publish more? Here, 16 scholars give advice on pitching, editing and writing – and dealing with negative peer reviews
UNSW Sydney leader Ian Jacobs says Australia’s proposed free speech code could prove counterproductive
Rogier Creemers advises early career academics to be ruthless and put themselves first to move up the ladder
India is far from realising its potential, but it’s showing promising signs of moving in the right direction, as are some other countries around the globe, writes Ellie Bothwell
Author: Nicholas J. McBrideEdition: SecondPublisher: Pearson LongmanPages: 392Price: £15.99ISBN 9781408218808The first indication of the book's originality lies in its format: a series of 20 letters...
The current generation of students often come under fire for supposedly being excessively brittle and demanding. But does the reality bear that out, and what are the teaching techniques to which they...
Even in disciplines in which research is inherently inexpensive, ‘grant capture’ is increasingly being adopted as a metric to judge academics and universities. But with success rates typically little...
Good PhD supervision is life-changing – and not only for the few who succeed in making it as researchers
WHAT Nigel White suggests some techniques and strategies for university teachers faced with getting agitated and stressed students through vital exams WHY Many problem students need not be referred...