Research collaboration: does absence make the heart grow fonder?
Academics are likely to be happier at work if their research involves scholars away from their institution, study reveals
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＆I understand anger over v-c pay＊, says new Cambridge head
Institution＊s Canadian leader tackles executive remuneration, Brexit and diversifying the university＊s student intake in?THE interview
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Scholarly sleaze
Just like Hollywood and Parliament, academia has entrenched power hierarchies. It can＊t pretend that sexual harassment doesn＊t take place
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Work-life balance survey 2018: long hours take their toll on academics
51勛圖＊s first major global survey of university staff views on work-life balance finds academics feeling stressed and underpaid, and struggling to fit time for personal relationships...
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US anthropologists debate response to rise of Trump
Association＊s annual meeting discusses teaching in ＆red＊ states and need for domestic research
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Research-intensive universities ＆offer best maternity pay＊
Generous leave packages used as a strategy to retain top female researchers?in elite institutions, study suggests
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Authorship wars: academics outline the rules for recognition
Holly Else reveals the results of a THE poll seeking to uncover the extent of authorship abuses as well as views on what criteria should generate credit
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Academia and the gig economy: how to survive in the post-golden age
Academia often treats leavers as failures, but some of our smartest scholars are starting to see walking away as liberation, writes?Inger Mewburn
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Is ＆universal basic income＊ a better option than research grants?
Instead of spending time competing for competitive funding, academics should be given a lump sum, paper suggests
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A Machiavellian guide to getting ahead in academia
Rogier Creemers advises early career academics to be ruthless and put themselves first to move up the ladder
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Interview with Cristina Lo Celso
The Imperial College London stem cell biologist discusses her Italian roots, the search for a cancer cure and dealing with a crowded commute
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Decades of learning
We were pleased that both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology＊s Teaching and Learning Laboratory and RELATE at MIT (Research in Learning, Assessing and Tutoring Effectively) were mentioned in...
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A manifesto for early career researchers
Early career researchers are the ＆working class of higher education＊, writes Elisabeth Julie Vargo??
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Raising concerns
Students and postdocs, as well as administrative staff, will always be considered expendable when they conflict with a senior academic (※Life with an abusive lab boss: one postdoc＊s story§, Opinion,...
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Poisonous science: the dark side of the lab
The bullying and subsequent suicide of a talented Ivy League scientist exposes ugly truths about the cruelty and dysfunction at the heart of academic science