Universities must prepare ECRs for life outside academia
Only one in 10 PhD graduates will work in academia. Institutions have to do more to ready the other nine for their careers, says a postdoctoral research fellow
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How US universities became IP-based capitalists
In embracing ‘cognitive capitalism’, US universities have moved from knowledge generation to income generation, argues Henry Heller
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Damage control in Scotland
The further the Brexit proposals for the university sector are unveiled, the more disastrous they appear (“Brexit turmoil ‘pushes university pension deficit to £15 billion’”). It seems that the prime...
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Wish they were here
News that the numbers of foreign students overstaying their visas have been grossly overestimated does not come as a huge surprise. The sector has been saying for years that students are education...
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Carrot or stick?
A leitmotif of current higher education debate is the tension between public and private good (“Public higher education ‘dying in the US’, warns Robert Reich”, News, 27 September). Governmental...
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Splitting chairs
On 12 October, Sir John Kingman appeared before the Science and Technology Committee to be questioned on the role of the interim chair of UK Research and Innovation, a post to which he had been...
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Knockin’ on Britain’s door
The government is a broken record on overseas student numbers when all the evidence suggests that academic mobility is a win-win situation
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Ethnic minorities more likely to regret going to university
Many graduates would also have chosen a different subject or institution in hindsight, study reveals
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The dangers in Asia’s quest for world-class universities
The pursuit of high-ranking universities should not be at the expense of education itself, writes Ka Ho Mok
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Have we entered post-truth politics, with no role for the research done by universities?
In this Q&A, Jukka Kola, rector of the University of Helsinki, gives his take on the changing face of university leadership
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LSE helps UN on tackling violence against women
Institution to work with UN special rapporteur and provide a ‘space’ to further the struggle against gender-related violence
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Academia in the freezer: running a university on top of the world
Director discusses life at the world’s northernmost university, and how it leads collaborative research on Arctic issues