Academic careers

What should have been a straightforward application for leave to remain in the UK turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare for University of St Andrews’ lecturer Emily Michelson, whose research trip to Italy proved too much for visa administrators to handle

Prizes of £80,000 in unrestricted funding up for grabs for best junior principal investigators

Summarising your journal paper effectively helps to ensure that it reaches the right audience

The suicide of a student on campus made Steven A. Miller realise that his students didn’t need a philosophy class to remind them of their impending deaths 

Applying for an academic job has become such a disengaged process that it is difficult to bring anything to your application to make it stand out, says John Brinnamoor

Civil servant status and national pay scales mean senior academics earn less than peers elsewhere

Without more conservative perspectives in the academy, lawmakers will increasingly ignore and potentially defund social science, says Musa al-Gharbi

With academics reluctant to take sick leave, universities must become more aware of the dangers of ‘presenteeism’, says Gail Kinman

US researcher claims that white academics are given more time to study and write

Researcher warns that anti-immigrant sentiment could affect pipeline of academic talent

Steve Keen laments loss of ‘time and freedom’ for universities’ ‘original thinkers’

Comments are a further sign that European institutions are gearing up to poach UK-based researchers

The ‘indigenisation’ of Canada’s academy has had many positives, but some scholars are uneasy about universities’ reluctance to challenge native beliefs about the world, say Rodney Clifton and Gabor Csepregi

Cramming study into the shortest possible time will impoverish the student experience and drive an even greater wedge between research-enabled permanent staff and the growing underclass of flexible teaching staff, says Tom Cutterham

Elsevier report highlights countries and subjects where gender equality is improving the most

To mark International Women’s Day, academics and administrators reflect on leadership challenges

Warwick seminar hears German and Swiss universities lead the way on support for partners

Analysis of deans shows women are less likely to be rehired than men

Duke University’s Valerie Ashby says institutions must be more ‘intentional’ about finding ethnic minority PhD candidates

Discriminating in hiring practice against particular intellectual perspectives is no less sinister than discriminating against particular political persuasions, says Glenn Geher

Top university administrators explain how to get the right person when hiring

Research finds that working overseas can boost PhD holders’ salaries 

Latest Hesa data throw spotlight on disciplines most at risk from flight of EU talent from UK 

Like cricket, academia needs specialists, and revised calendars and tech will show teachers belong in the top order, says Merlin Crossley

Living next to the US is like sleeping with an elephant. But will the election of a divisive president see more Americans pack their trunks and trump, trump, trump up to Canada? asks Glen Jones

Data reveal research ties between US and Muslim nations targeted by attempted ban

Tired of the lies and back-patting that CVs are made of, Roger Watson eyes an alternative with a long list of virtues

Lecturer Rachel Moss on the casualties of a demanding academic culture

Overall higher education staff headcount up 2 per cent, new data reveal

Fixing problems in the academic job market by reducing the number of PhDs would homogenise the sector, argues Tom Cutterham

Keep it brief, tailor to the job requirements and do not mention your hobbies. Our panel of top university administrators offer some tips on how to write a top-notch CV

Vijaya Nath on what might be preventing women from climbing the HE career ladder

Research-intensive universities may not be matching rhetoric with actions on teaching support

The most popular Times Higher Education stories of the last year revealed

Our panel of leading university administrators explain how applicants should approach a meeting of this kind at their institution

Off to an academic conference? Helena Ledmyr offers some tricks to getting the most out of attending a scholarly gathering

Provost says institution 'must do better' as independent researchers find focus on excellence has had 'negative impact' alongside top results

Latest EUA doctoral council chair says open science very much on his agenda for the role

University staff may often write letters of recommendation in a very gendered way, warns Dame Athene Donald

UK universities can now ‘feel confident’ in recruiting postgraduate students for 2017-18, says RCUK chair

Five top European academics offer advice on how to mentor, manage and expand a research team

Minority groups still not represented at professorial level by 2080, study suggests

Male scholars turn to alcohol to stave off impostor feelings

Our experts reveal how they seek to choose the right person for the job when faced with a pile of flawless CVs and glowing references

Students and lecturers join forces for a national demonstration over cuts, fee rises and the plight of EU staff and students post-Brexit

What links the anxious, fearful undergraduate and the anxious, fearful academic? Pervasive precarity, argues Matthew Vernon

Scholars share what the title means to them and offer the newly promoted advice on handling the status update

In the first of a new series of articles, leading academics and university administrators will share tips on how to get ahead in higher education. Here, those involved in hiring explain how to handle a Skype interview

It’s not just EU nationals that universities should worry about losing, says Timothy Devinney, and a shrinking pound won’t help

As meritocratic approach to education finds favour in UK, academic argues its dystopian original meaning has come to pass in China

UUK must help advance equality at the front of the lecture hall through loan write-offs and conferences, says Geraldine Van Bueren

We all need good advice – the problem is making sure you know where to find it, and how to accept it, says John Tregoning

We speak to the head of Nanyang Technological University about the rise of Asia, what it’s like being a European leading a Singaporean institution, and barbecue chicken

Graduate teachers will be placed on the university’s pay scale and receive the same employment benefits as other staff

A new report suggests standards by which departments may consider social media and other public communications in promotion decisions

Internal analysis finds women earn 10.5 per cent less than men of similar experience and research productivity

Christopher Phelps surveys a field that lends itself to interdisciplinarity, while a British scholar laments that UK institutions prefer Americans for Americanists

Headhunters are far from lazy and harmful, says Kim Frost, who uses them all the time

Walking supervision sessions around Birmingham and pub-based academic chats have won praise from PhD candidates