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  • Literature reviews ‘poach attention’ from original research

    • 18 May 2021
    • Jack Grove

    Future citations of a journal paper drop by more than a third after being included in a review

  • How decolonised is my curriculum? There’s an app for that

    • 18 May 2021
    • Anna McKie

    Imperial creates tool to analyse geographic distribution of authors on reading lists and socio-economic status of their country

  • Writing letters of recommendation is at the heart of being an educator

    • 18 May 2021
    • Douglas Dowland

    What strikes some as a tedious chore prone to bias can transform lives and evoke enduring gratitude. Academics should embrace the opportunity to knit the plot of a person, says Douglas Dowland

  • Other professions don’t tolerate public rudeness. Why do academics?

    • 18 May 2021
    • Katy Barnett

    Scholars should model the constructive criticism of ideas, not yell ‘you're wrong’ during each other’s talks, says Katy Barnett

  • Interview with Jan Eldridge

    • 18 May 2021
    • John Ross

    Theoretical astrophysicist explains how early home computers nurtured a fascination with the universe, and busts the myth that most stars are single

  • Interview with Anthony Schrag

    • 5 May 2021
    • Anna McKie

    Artist and researcher Anthony Schrag on the importance of interdisciplinarity, how university changed him and why art will be even more important in the post-Covid world

  • US colleges’ billion-dollar question: is philanthropy worth the cost?

    • 5 May 2021
    • Paul Basken

    With wealth and donations becoming concentrated in ever fewer, ever more influential hands, and with some institutions languishing while the elite flourish, Paul Basken asks whether it is time for American colleges and universities to start biting the hand that feeds

  • What are academics looking forward to about returning to campus?

    • 5 May 2021
    • Kristen R. Ghodsee, Sarah Cox, Saikat Majumdar, Rivka Isaacson, Tamson Pietsch Stephen Mumford

    As vaccination programmes offer the prospect of a return to physical teaching, what aspects of their pre-pandemic life will academics most heartily re-embrace (or at least touch elbows with)? And are there aspects of locked-down life that they will miss? Our six contributors offer a range of perspectives

  • Teaching universities lead UK’s £60 million crowdfunding haul

    • 5 May 2021
    • Ellie Bothwell

    Study highlights growing importance of fundraising activity but raises concerns about burden on academics and students

  • Show societal worth of research ‘to preserve academic freedom’

    • 5 May 2021
    • Simon Baker

    Conference hears argument that freedoms are ‘better achieved’ by maintaining public support for universities

  • Teaching intelligence: how to encourage entrepreneurship

    • 5 May 2021
    • Anna McKie

    Entrepreneurship skills can benefit students and society, but many universities aren’t giving the area the attention it needs, experts tell Anna McKie

  • Freedom of speech really is at risk – but beware of top-down solutions

    • 5 May 2021
    • James Tooley

    With some academics being willing to oust those they disagree with, self-censorship is a huge, unacknowledged problem, says James Tooley

  • Is the benefit of the REF really worth the cost?

    • 5 May 2021
    • Dorothy Bishop

    Simpler options are imperfect but perhaps no more so than the panels’ unavoidably cursory ‘peer review’ of submissions, says Dorothy Bishop

  • Lost in (the third) space: knowledge brokers need career paths too

    • 5 May 2021
    • Matthew Flinders, Sarah Chaytor

    Those who blur the lines between academic and professional staff are the connective tissue in the research ecosystem, say Matthew Flinders and Sarah Chaytor

  • Careers Clinic: how should I approach a PhD supervisor?

    • 26 Apr 2021
    • Dene Mullen

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

  • How to be an ally for first-generation students

    • 26 Apr 2021
    • Siobhán O’Brien

    As lecturers, we can influence whether social background becomes an obstacle for students’ progression, says Siobhán O’Brien

  • Interview with Connson Locke

    • 21 Apr 2021
    • Matthew Reisz

    The LSE management expert describes how workers can gain confidence to speak up, the culture shock of academia and what she learned from a drag king workshop

  • Bullying up: academic ‘incivility’ exerts heavy toll on deans

    • 21 Apr 2021
    • John Ross

    Senior scholars increasingly victims of gossip, muttering and insubordination, researchers say

  • V-c on a mission to bring HE and FE together, from Oz to Shetland

    • 21 Apr 2021
    • Ellie Bothwell

    New University of the Highlands and Islands principal discusses the unique value of multi-campus, regional universities and why the ‘binary’ narrative around further and higher education must change

  • NYU provost: don’t let funders and students dictate subject mix

    • 21 Apr 2021
    • Ellie Bothwell

    Katherine Fleming tells THE event New York University would ‘turn into a gigantic teaching institution for data science’ if it responded to outside pressure