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Interactive tool allows you to benchmark your vice-chancellor’s pay against key information sets
Being open about failure is one thing, but we must also look at how we define success, says Shahidha Bari
Universities should take responsibility for the betterment of society, says Michael Crow
Steph Wright wonders if it is better to speak your mind or to hold your tongue
Pressure to publish can lead to unethical behaviour, writes Athene Donald
Why one academic takes her students to Dharavi, a large slum in Mumbai, to teach drama
Legal battle overturned landmark ruling that may have led to routine disclosure of senior staff salaries
An academic who takes students from the UK to Mumbai to lead a community theatre programme tells Chris Parr how the project affects all who take part
Specialist language in scientific literature can put people off. Doctoral candidate Michelle Reeve asks: is it really necessary?
Scholars should cheer up and learn to take the rough with the smooth, says John Tregoning
University revises policy after backlash from academics
By some measures, universities are wonderfully accommodating workplaces for gays and lesbians. Six academics give us their perspective
Academic precarity is a special kind of ‘torture’, observes Siobhan O'Dwyer, but scholarly life is not all doom and gloom
Twitter may be a medium for academic vanity, but it also serves some very useful scholarly purposes, argues Les Back
To aid non-traditional students, David Burns built a ‘Spoc’, a digital course where an academic is always on call
How can it be that experienced, full-time lecturers teaching huge classes at Canadian universities can be on such low salaries that they officially qualify as “poor”?, asks Andrew W. Robinson
Planning, personal connections and relentless self-promotion could just unlock the largesse of the masses, says Glen Wright
Richard Budd mulls the logic of giving money to your alma mater
Amid all the events to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Peter J. Smith contemplates our appetite for everything – and anything – to do with the Bard
Producing ‘real’ books builds academics’ collective public presence, and it is also the most irresistible scholarly challenge, says Ödül Bozkurt
UPP Foundation will seek to invest money in areas such as access and retention for students from disadvantaged backgrounds
The impulse to make things relevant is not always facile, says Shahidha Bari
During a bout of severe depression, a professor in the US was admitted to a secure hospital unit. He writes here of his experiences
