10 steps to PhD failure
Kevin Haggerty and Aaron Doyle offer tips on making postgraduate study even tougher (which students could also use to avoid pitfalls if they prefer)
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‘We’re worth more’: casual teaching staff fight back
Graduate teaching assistants are campaigning to improve temporary workers’ low pay and poor treatment. How is the battle going?
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What are you reading? – 27 August 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Dorothy M. Richardson: the forgotten revolutionary
One hundred years after transforming the modern novel, Dorothy M. Richardson’s neglected works are being reclaimed, says Rebecca Bowler
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Casual lecturers ‘stigmatised by job titles’
The University of Lincoln rejects criticism for listing hourly paid staff on its website, saying they are ‘not second-class members of faculty’
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Offering homeopathy waters down University of Toronto’s reputation, critics claim
Alternative treatments in healthcare plan is latest in a series of homeopathy-related controversies
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Grant delay unrelated to spending review fears, BBSRC insists
Postponement of responsive mode grants partly aimed at preserving success rates while research council makes ‘additional large investments’
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‘Professor hunters’ dig in on the digital battlefield
Brian Bloch considers the attacks against two Humboldt University scholars in the internet age
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USS deficit rises despite savings from end of final salary pensions
Rising liabilities may again focus attention on whether Universities Superannuation Scheme assumptions are ‘unreasonably pessimistic’
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New HEA chair: paying members could enshrine it as professional body
Rama Thirunamachandran says role and financing of sector’s teaching champion must be rethought
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Grant winners – 27 August 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Holistic education, not vocational
Hidden in the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s report on graduate jobs is the very questionable statement that choosing an apprenticeship instead of university could be a much...
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Met with concerns
Reading the article on London Metropolitan University’s new strategic plan, we had to smile (“Grants and teaching checks in Met vision”, News, 20 August). Vice-chancellor John Raftery’s reference to...