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Complaints about journal editors¡¯ decisions ignore the root cause of the research assessment problem: career structure, says Richard Sever   

Student labour movement feels momentum despite Trump administration pressure

New rules will soon require UK institutions to listen to early career researchers. Jack Grove looks at how to engage a group often seen as hard to reach

Universities rightly make every effort to protect learners¡¯ feelings. But what about teachers¡¯ feelings, asks Alice Wickenden 

Former Heriot-Watt and Strathclyde academic ordered to complete unpaid work and overnight curfew

Improving the career prospects of postdocs is now a priority of UK universities and research funders

Countries such as the UK and Germany could see benefit to their research bases, event hears

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski tells young scholars to focus on research and ignore ¡®shitty job market¡¯

Brian Schmidt says academia is losing brightest researchers because they cannot endure ¡®intolerable¡¯ precarity throughout their thirties

A new survey of employers raises questions about the labour market value of higher degrees, says Tristram Hooley

Analysis suggests as many as half of the main influencers of depression and anxiety have their roots in the student-supervisor dynamic

Increasing number of female evaluators on committees could put more emphasis on long-term outcomes, says researcher

Working-class graduates half as likely to move to Oxford, Cambridge or elite London institutions

Former colleagues call for investigations to disclose what Strathclyde and Heriot-Watt universities knew about Kevin O¡¯Gorman¡¯s conduct

¡®Macquarie model¡¯ credited with cutting attrition and accelerating completion, and is now being emulated elsewhere

First Complete University Guide survey since Augar review raises prospect of domestic master¡¯s fees overtaking annual charges for undergraduates

University says scheme will give junior academics ¡®opportunity to experience life as a full-time lecturer¡¯, but critics suspect REF link

Early career academics dismayed to see 20 per cent threshold for independent projects and personal development dropped from UK guidelines

Marking down fellowship applicants for being unwilling to move institutions can be deeply unfair, say Trisha Greenhalgh and Ed Hawkins

Those lucky established academics who want to help precarious colleagues would do better to pay for their lunch, says Sarah Burton

The banning of certain academic books by prisons in Northern Ireland is deeply counterproductive, says Dieter Reinisch

Asking people to prepare for a 10-week course that might not run is too much, says an anonymous early career academic

Provision of teacher residencies and mentoring by universities seen as key to long-term science improvement

Starting again from scratch every October causes no end of stress, mix-ups and wasted time, says one hourly paid lecturer

Trump-dominated panel bolsters campuses that reject postgraduate unions

Swiss university has signed San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which says academics should not be judged on the journals they publish in

Liverpool pro vice-chancellor says new positions would be step between PhDs and traditional postdoctoral posts

Identical CVs with different names on them sent to 250 academics in experiment

V-c who chairs financial sustainability group warns that deficit on doctoral training raises major questions

The unaffordability of two rents severely restricts the study options of care leavers and estranged students, says Roy Celaire 

Vacataire status means not only low pay, but six-month waits between wages, says the Confederation of Young Researchers

Supervisors¡¯ supportiveness, not their academic ability, found to be key driver of satisfaction in survey

More than 1,200 people sign letter supporting Feyzi Ismail in her dispute with SOAS University of London

Certification scheme will give academics the recognition they deserve, says initiative¡¯s architect

Improving the culture surrounding mental health for postgraduates and PhD students also crucial to maintaining a healthy research system, Chris Skidmore tells leaders

Hundreds sign petition calling for teaching post to receive salary in July and August

Trend reflects growing gap between PhD completions and academic job availability

Data on almost 2,500 computer scientists in US and Canada suggest ¡®prestige¡¯ of PhD institution does not influence number of papers they later produce

Fractures emerge between Democratic candidates ¨C but they, and even Republicans, actually share broad concerns on affordability

Pam Denicolo, Dawn Duke and Julie Reeves answer some of the most common questions preoccupying doctoral candidates about the biggest day of their career to date

The relationship between PhD students and their supervisors is often said to be the most intense in the academy, with huge implications for student success. Yet most supervisors receive little if any training. Here, six academics give their take on how to approach it 

The recent death of politics academic David Held left Alix Dietzel shocked and guilty. Why did no one warn her she could feel like that?

Oversupply of young scholars means employers¡¯ productivity demands are much higher than a generation ago, study finds

University leaders claim shift could water down standards, but applied sciences institutes think they are simply defending historic privileges

Debate sparked by criticism of growth of PhDs by publication, and allegations that corruption and nepotism are undermining the reliability of the academic doctorate

Queen guitarist Brian May completed his PhD after enjoying rock stardom. Jack Grove looks at how doctoral dropouts can land second chances ¨C and supervisors can help

¡®Anything goes¡¯ approach does not serve doctoral candidates, universities or funders, say researchers

Academics say ¡®personal assistant¡¯ position highlights precarity faced by early career scholars

Life as an early career researcher is hard, but when you add being working class into the mix, the obstacles are almost insurmountable, writes an anonymous academic facing the death of her university career

Marketisation, precarity and global competition have combined to create a vast market for academic ghostwriting, says an anonymous scholar

Australian universities yet to sign up to guidelines, representative body says

Efforts to improve work-life balance must address the significant amounts of time that many scholars spend travelling, says Rachel Moss

Sir Fraser Stoddart says the most rewarding element of his work has been supervising research students, who supported him personally after his wife¡¯s death

One thousand PhD places to be created over next five years

Turning to dance may help scientists communicate their findings to those who distrust experts, claims competition winner

Data from the UK, US and Australia suggest science doctorates continue to dominate expansion, but why?

Researchers who trace links between academic supervisors and students claim that it can help to shed light on the nature of mentoring

Seemingly owned by an Oxbridge Essays shareholder, company offers up to 100,000 words of ¡®model writing assistance¡¯

Failure to recruit local PhDs will erode Australia¡¯s skill base, report warns

Supervision highlighted as a ¡®big challenge¡¯ in wake of study on doctoral education