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Is South-east Asia higher education’s next global hotspot?
- 28 Jun 2021
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
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
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
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
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
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Is there a catch to the UK’s £22 billion science spending pledge?
- 17 Jun 2021
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Scientific leaders and politicians have embraced calls to reduce the stress and precarity faced by researchers. Jack Grove examines some radical proposals