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Starting out as a principal investigator in your postdoctoral institution can make sense, but you need to make sure you stand apart from your former boss, says Laura Piddock

Billy Bryan and Furaha Asani look at how to get the most out of your doctoral studies

Discussion at THE World Academic Summit explored how league tables can help promote accountability, reports Ellie Bothwell

Sarah Crook reflects on what it costs early career researchers to wait years to hear whether journals want to publish their articles

Universities in Pakistan and across the developing world should help spread the light of learning, say Abdur Rehman Cheema and Mehvish Riaz

We need a cultural shift in how we provide comments on student work, say Naomi Winstone and Robert Nash

As state universities struggle in the face of funding cuts, we must not forget their mission and influence on civilisation itself

How to unravel the Gordian knot of an EU exit? The strength of the UK higher education sector gives Anton Muscatelli hope

Claire Grant on her tried and tested lecturing technique

Universities should be doing more to speak up and out against contract cheating, says Tricia Bertram Gallant

Degrees are about aspirations as much as they are about status and salaries, write Neil Sammells and Rob Mears 

As new details about the teaching excellence framework emerge, Chris Husbands explains why it is an opportunity to recognise UK higher education¡¯s quality 

Bruce Macfarlane on the hypocrisy of academics who help to monitor students in ways they themselves never were

Scholarship is about valuing things that can¡¯t be counted and shouldn¡¯t be rushed, says Adam Benjamin Smith

After one exam mark scuppered his daughter¡¯s university plans, Hans van Mourik Broekman joined those calling for admissions reform

The world judges in black and white and only strict adherence to principle can regain the public¡¯s trust

The challenges of being a parent while studying must not be overlooked, says Helen Owton 

Phil Baty addresses the THE World Academic Summit 2016, and raises some fundamental questions about how higher education is viewed worldwide

Vice-chancellors will need to adapt if they want to influence the direction of post-Brexit Britain, says David Boddy

The latest reaction to the World University Rankings as it comes in

The best universities need the best technology to stay on top of their game, says Paul Feldman

Via fiscal reform, income-linked loans and four-year places, a famed higher education system can be saved, says Simon Marginson

The country¡¯s learners and academics are more thoughtful, engaged and generous than their UK counterparts, says Sam Gilchrist Hall

Funding, freedom from regulation and staff of the highest calibre are the keys to global success

Anna Esaki-Smith writes on the many challenges facing her as she prepares her class for the IELTS exam

Internationalisation is unpopular with swathes of the public and it needs a makeover, says Janet Beer

Holistic admissions offer a level of fairness that traditional academic criteria alone cannot provide, and it is a new approach in Singapore, writes Kristen Lynas

Partnerships between cities and universities will be vital to securing the economic future of the North of England, writes Koen Lamberts

Max du Bois on how to avoid cultivating a bland, un-engaging brand, ahead of THE event on university branding

University of Essex vice-chancellor Anthony Forster outlines his university¡¯s plans for postgraduates who take on teaching responsibilities ¨C a thorny issue for the UK higher education sector

Christopher Ziguras looks at how Australia's universities are seeking to build stronger relationships with alumni

Jos¨¦ Celso Freire Junior makes the case for international student exchange programmes

UK prime minister May¡¯s schools and higher education policymaking relies on anecdote and politicians¡¯ own experience, not evidence

Why are postgraduates and postdocs so expendable and professors so untouchable, asks a geneticist subjected to a paranoid boss¡¯ abuse

David Palfreyman considers how secretiveness about the benefits a graduate might expect might fall foul of trading regulations

Am¨¦rica M. Liz¨¢rraga Gonz¨¢lez charts the progress being made towards embedding an international approach in Mexican universities

Funding bodies must foster a long-term vision for public awareness if research is to gain a place in the cultural mainstream, say Sam Illingworth and Andreas Prokop

Karen McBride explains why encouraging students to study abroad is of such importance to Canada¡¯s universities

Quantifying the learning outcomes of international education programmes is a challenge, writes Kevin Hovland

Richard Follett and Tosin Adebisi discuss what they say is a new dawn for the continent

Anna Buverud, academic dugnad project leader, University of Oslo

Anne van Wageningen, master coordinator, department of European studies, University of Amsterdam

Kellie McMullin and Mandy Reinig on why universities should make the most of the photo-sharing social network

In a smaller but more polarised world, refugees¡¯ appetite for study speaks to higher education¡¯s continuing role as a force for good

Vote showed that when people think advancements are for the benefit of others, they think they have nothing to lose by rejecting them

Is enough being done early on to prevent under-represented groups from leaving philosophy, asks Briana Toole

Universities must pay more attention to the difficulties faced by students, says Daniel Dennehy

The prospect of new grammar schools on the horizon raises big questions for HE, writes Nick Hillman

Stanford and MIT might be seen as stars, but the UK has good practice too, says Trevor McMillan

As °Õ±á·¡¡¯s HE and Me interview section passes a special landmark, John Elmes looks back over three years¡¯ worth of laughs, tears, and a whole lot of column inches

Nearly 70, his mortgage paid and his children settled, John Kirkaldy realises it¡¯s not too late to indulge in a globetrotting adventure

Stephen Banks worries that the push to show real-world engagement may bury the ¡®deep knowledge¡¯ we ought to treasure

Some lecturers will rightly encourage forms of student interaction that are impossible for those covering their faces, Eric Heinze argues

Undergraduate or star scholar, status seems to offer little protection against feeling unworthy while less privileged students may be more at risk

Switzerland shows risks to universities from rise of right-wing populist parties and politicians, says John Morgan

The proposal to end the portability of research outputs could penalise ECRs, writes Nick Wright

THE¡¯s director of data and analytics Duncan Ross reflects on the work underpinning the 2016-2017 World University Rankings

The HE Bill is explicit on the need for competition, but why does it not encourage cooperation? Maddalaine Ansell writes

Stanford University student Kiran Sridhar explores the role that higher education must play in mitigating the negative effects of technology

David Boddy wants to see British universities doing more to demonstrate the value of UK education