How to ... Help students who fail exams
WHAT - Moira Peelo and Terry Wareham consider what lecturers can do when promising students perform badly WHY - Failure is part of university life and yet a failed student can say as much about the...
WHAT - Moira Peelo and Terry Wareham consider what lecturers can do when promising students perform badly WHY - Failure is part of university life and yet a failed student can say as much about the...
The relationship between PhD students and their supervisors is often said to be the most intense in the academy, with huge implications for student success. Yet most supervisors receive little if any...
Advice on how to cope with all the work and when to say no to opportunities
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
Plus no social life, unpaid preparation and nightmares. John Brogan reveals the grim reality of a visiting lecturer's life. At secondary school, the mere mention of James Watt and his separate...
When Patty Ramirez became pregnant during her PhD she assumed she could ‘have it all’. The reality was far more stressful
This guide gets right to the heart of the virtues that make a scholar, Robert Eaglestone discovers
Peer review is lauded in principle as the guarantor of quality in academic publishing and grant distribution. But its practice is often loathed by those on the receiving end. Here, seven academics...
Revised Higher Education Quality Council guidelines for universities and colleges on quality assurance and control call on institutions to respond effectively to the expectations detailed in various...
On 19 June, the Office for Students published Regulatory Advice 9, an “accounts direction” requiring providers to justify as well as to declare the salaries of vice-chancellors. If this is not done...
Katherine Firth on why you should approach texts less like a Victorian maiden and more like a pirate hero
Daniel K. Sokol on student complaints, illness and the limits of scholars’ expertise
High interest rates and high living costs make investing in a house for student offspring a sound option for those who can raise the capital. Alison Utley and Jared Wilson report. The rich are...
Liberal arts colleges are often perceived as being elite and irrelevant. But the best among them excel in areas such as engagement and focus on critical thinking. Ellie Bothwell explores whether...
Senior management has its perks but it also comes with a host of new practical, philosophical, psychological and even physical challenges. Here, seven people who have lived through that fiery baptism...