Letters 每 11 April 2019
Should UCU head be an academic? The general secretary of the University and College Union should be an academic (※Pension tactics central to UCU leadership race§, News, 4 April). A UCU leader should...
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Research intelligence: how to improve team science
Work to encourage team science is gathering momentum, and a recent Academy of Medical Sciences report highlights key steps to be taken
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China: lure of homeland ＆no simple choice＊ for expat academics
Personal and pragmatic factors often keep Chinese academics in the West
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What universities can do to help pregnant PhD students
Ahead of International Women＊s Day on 8 March, Selina Sutton explains what universities are doing wrong (and right) when supporting PhD candidates during pregnancy and beyond
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Failure is healthy, but pressure to succeed makes it costly to mess up
The idea of mistakes being intrinsic to success has become an educational mantra 每 but for many students and academics, messing up is not an option
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Academic freedom fears as China erodes Hong Kong funding divide
Dollars, not diktats, now seen as biggest risk to institutional autonomy in special administrative region
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Is grade inflation weakening the value of higher education?
Brian Poole asks if grade and?credential inflation has resulted in too many degree holders chasing too few jobs
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Letters 每?3 January 2019
Online learning has a friendly human face We applaud Paul Le Blanc＊s recognition of the ※overlooked majority§ of students who carry work, family and other responsibilities with them into their...
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Scholars divulge their biggest mistakes
Six scholars learn the career and life lessons of their greatest academic missteps
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＆A plant in the middle of the desert＊: women and STEM in the Arab world
Jordanian molecular biologist Rana Dajani talks to Matthew Reisz about her multiple roles as a conspicuously successful feminist, hijab-wearing scientist in the Middle East
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Who should edit academic journals?
A survey reveals readers＊ opinions on whether professional editors or active researchers should be responsible for academic editing
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PhDs without tears: how academics can help ease students＊ minds
With many doctoral candidates unhappy and reporting mental health problems, Emma Pierson suggests ways supervisors could reduce pressures
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Career advice: how to survive your first year as a lecturer
Gavin Buckingham offers new lecturers tips on how to thrive in the pressurised first few months in the job
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Three years for PhDs ＆not long enough＊
Extended PhDs would be money well spent in the quest for international competitiveness, says leading physicist
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Universities ＆poorly set up＊ for continuing education
Higher education institutions too slow to adapt what and how they teach, rival says