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  • Is South-east Asia higher education’s next global hotspot?

    • 28 Jun 2021
    • Joyce Lau

    With a vast youth population but relatively low participation rates, higher education in the Asean region looks ripe for expansion. But can challenges over funding, quality and regional cooperation be overcome? Joyce Lau reports

  • Interview with Helen Burt

    • 28 Jun 2021
    • Paul Basken

    The retiring UBC scientist on inspirational partners, the precarious state of career options, and the formative value of stink bombs

  • Three hard truths I learned before moving to a non-academic career

    • 17 Jun 2021
    • Janelle Ward

    Your new manager likely doesn’t have a PhD, and she’s higher on the food chain because experience is more valued than a doctorate, says Janelle Ward

  • Research intelligence: which Covid innovations should be embraced?

    • 17 Jun 2021
    • Jack Grove

    University staff are keen on hybrid working, but will it work long-term for researchers? Jack Grove examines which practices might outlast the pandemic

  • Be there or be square: the strange art of lecturing

    • 17 Jun 2021
    • Richard Sugg

    A PowerPoint marathon or a ‘captured’ lecture will always be a pale imitation of a live experience, in which an expert practitioner taps into ‘the dangerous energy of all those watching eyes’, says Richard Sugg

  • Is there a catch to the UK’s £22 billion science spending pledge?

    • 17 Jun 2021
    • Jack Grove

    Recent cuts and scares have cast doubt on ministers’ commitment to harnessing science in pursuit of a levelled-up, post-Brexit innovation economy. Questions also remain about how funding should be distributed and directed. Jack Grove examines the lessons from history and from overseas

  • Covid: working mums hit hard as v-cs demanded ‘business as usual’

    • 17 Jun 2021
    • Anna McKie

    Wide-ranging survey of mothers working in higher education reveals institutions’ inconsistent and often ineffective responses

  • Precarity means top students quitting academia, warns OECD expert

    • 17 Jun 2021
    • David Matthews

    Report author says increasing funding would only lead to more insecurity, and culture shift is needed instead

  • Lowering English loan repayment threshold ‘would save £4 billion’

    • 17 Jun 2021
    • Simon Baker

    Changing loan terms ‘might not be popular’ and would cost average graduate £10,000 but could be better than cutting places or funding, says Hepi paper

  • Grade inflation tied to women in insecure teaching roles

    • 17 Jun 2021
    • Paul Basken

    Gender bias in student reviews leads vulnerable females to be more lenient in their assessments, large analysis finds

  • European researchers ‘losing interest’ in UK university jobs

    • 17 Jun 2021
    • Jack Grove

    Headhunters and scientists have reported waning interest in UK research roles, citing high cost of visas and healthcare as a key deterrent

  • Covid and geopolitical tensions ‘stem Asian brain drain’

    • 17 Jun 2021
    • John Ross

    Interplay of pandemic, geopolitics and demographics generating ‘significant movement in this part of the world’

  • Why are German politicians so obsessed with PhDs?

    • 17 Jun 2021
    • David Matthews

    After yet another minister falls to a plagiarism scandal, observers lament that a long German tradition of doctorates has descended into academic ‘credentialism’

  • Is the future of history writing in the first person?

    • 17 Jun 2021
    • Matthew Reisz

    With history books increasingly including first-person, ‘confessional’ elements, authors explain why they take this approach, while other historians reflect on the dangers

  • Careers Clinic: strategic moves with one eye on a promotion

    • 24 May 2021
    • Dene Mullen

    THE’s Careers Clinic series brings together the great and the good of higher education to answer a burning careers question

  • Academic workshops: how we build back better

    • 24 May 2021
    • Susie Douglas, Julie Morton, Matthew Roberts Tim Rogers

    Four experts from the University of Bath give tips on how to create an open, creative and non-hierarchical environment at your next workshop

  • Accomplished academics can still learn from their supervisees

    • 18 May 2021
    • Lucas Lixinski

    My job is to help young researchers negotiate their own varied and wondrous paths, not track (a version of) my own, says Lucas Lixinski

  • Space programmes boom as private-sector exploration takes off

    • 18 May 2021
    • Jon Marcus

    US universities rush to meet student demand driven by growth of SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin

  • Two decades on, EU’s single market for science still ‘unfinished’

    • 18 May 2021
    • David Matthews

    As Brussels tries again to push forward the European research area, the bloc remains fractured by investment levels, researcher mobility and national rules

  • Research intelligence: big ideas to improve research culture

    • 18 May 2021
    • Jack Grove

    Scientific leaders and politicians have embraced calls to reduce the stress and precarity faced by researchers. Jack Grove examines some radical proposals