Placements useful because PhDs need Plan B
Universities are struggling to balance recommendations to send PhD students on internships with the fact that their supervisors often fail to see the value of such placements, a conference has heard.
Search
-
-
Steady hand needed on the tiller as UCL charts global waters
Malcolm Grant's successor must look abroad while keeping an eye on home. Elizabeth Gibney reports
-
News in brief
Postgraduate employmentHigh marks pay off for physicistsGraduate earnings depend more on degree class than on the institution attended - at least in physics. This is one of the conclusions of a...
-
Victory is tweet for the academy's hard-working but unsung heroes
Colleagues laud devotion to duty in our #loveHE competition to find sector stars. John Elmes writes
-
News in brief
United StatesPresidential addresses are costlyA public university system has spent $2 million (£1.3 million) on renovating presidents' homes over the past decade. An investigation by California Watch...
-
What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
Jane's brilliance, John Mullan tells Matthew Reisz, lies not only in her insights and keen eye for detail, but also in an uncanny ability to make her readers feel every bit as clever as her
-
More risk for you, Sir?
Mr Les Onions, our Head of Fundraising, has welcomed the news from Fiona Kirk, the director of development at the London School of Economics, that the LSE will "rebuild an appetite for risk" after...
-
Research intelligence - Eyes front in the 'top-down' centres
Josh Howgego and Paul Jump report on EPSRC efforts to train researchers with all-round acumen
-
What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
-
The academy award for best satellite campus goes to...
US universities aim to attract students and business by opening cross-country branches
-
'Anti-genocide paparazzi' monitor Sudanese conflict
Harvard-based Satellite Sentinel Project offers cutting-edge support to humanitarian initiatives. Jon Marcus reports
-
The week in higher education
• Is a letter signed by the vice-chancellors of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge one of the most powerful pieces of paper in existence? Many will be wondering after a U-turn by the government...
-
Leader: Let's ask profitable questions
The Finch group's open-access task is tricky, but has it missed a trick by not investigating publishers' profit margins?
-
From where I sit - Doctors beware: paper is patient
Since early 2011, Germany has been rocked by a series of scandals relating to ethical breaches in doctoral dissertations authored by high-profile figures. These range from huge tracts of work being...
-
Odds and quads
Of around 20 surviving maces made for universities in the Middle Ages, three are owned by the University of St Andrews. Probably the finest and most valuable is the St Salvator's College Mace shown...