Supervisors can do a lot more to support PhD students
Many doctoral candidates feel poorly looked after. More awareness and empathy from academics can help fight that, says Geoffrey Cantor
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Forging links in business chain
Increased links between business and universities are an unalloyed good, and not only because they may help to fill a gap in government funding; the accumulation of knowledge should not remain within...
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Scholars in the lead
Thank you to the anonymous writer for raising the issue of useless headhunters (“Useless management headhunters damage academic leadership”, Opinion, 18 August). In 2014, the executive recruiter...
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Old is the new new
It would be hard to tell from Martin McQuillan’s article that New Labour had lost two elections, had overseen a steady decline in membership, and had lost Scotland to the Scottish National Party (“...
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Share to learn
Interdisciplinary cooperation is one of the values that Bath Spa University prides itself on, so I was delighted to read Nick Jennings of Imperial College London advocating this approach (“Overly...
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Grant winners – 25 August 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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US conservatives’ distrust of science
These graphs show that as academics in the US have become more liberal since 1990, trust in science among conservative members of the public has declined (while liberals’ has held steady)
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A degree don’t come for free
While political pledges to scrap fees in the UK and US appeal to many, a debt-free approach will leave someone counting the cost
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Ethnic minority graduates’ employment prospects worsen – study
Black and Asian students fall further behind white classmates after leaving university
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Rio Olympics 2016: which universities produced the most gold medal winners?
Want to become a degree-holding Olympic gold medal winner? Tommaso Grant finds out which institutions might be right for you
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Headhunters are an invaluable part of the recruitment process
Headhunters are far from lazy and harmful, says Kim Frost, who uses them all the time
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Family ties ‘help scientists to get ahead’ in some countries
Levels of nepotism in scientific publishing have been revealed by report