Low PhD stipends are recruitment ‘time bomb’
Doctoral training centres report rise in overseas applicants as graduate salaries lure UK talent
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Universities must convert widening access into graduate jobs
Call for institutions to measure social mobility impact via graduates’ careers
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1 May 2014
Worth the risks - Animal researchers end their silence on their work
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News in brief - 1 May 2014
Scottish independenceHepi/THE essay competitionWriters with strong opinions on what Scottish independence might mean for higher education are invited to enter the Higher Education Policy Institute/...
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World in brief - 1 May 2014
United StatesIndian applicants up by one-thirdApplications to US graduate schools from India have risen dramatically in the past year, according to a new report. The Council of Graduate Schools, in...
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Ernesto Laclau, 1935-2014
A leading Argentine political theorist and advocate of “radical democracy”, long based at the University of Essex, has died
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Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
We speak to the former Children’s Laureate and next chancellor of the University of Roehampton
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THE Scholarly Web - 1 May 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Well versed
If you’re unsure where your head isfor jetting aroundIf you’re wasteful with millionsbut skimp over poundsIf discussion embarrasses you(it reveals your mistakes!)Urge pay restraint widelywhile you’re...
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Thinking not required
Hurrah for Rowan Williams (“No fooling about impact”, Opinion, 17 April). The one unifying factor of every degree should be critical analysis, training to think, bringing enlightenment to the masses...
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Academic Hunger Games
With hindsight, perhaps the legacy of the research excellence framework on all researchers has been distilled in the tribunal judgement “responsibility for allowing their own vanity and self-interest...
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No spying
One never wants to spoil a good story but it is important to correct some of the facts in “Exposé brought Warwick success” (News, 10 April).It is not true that the university employed a detective to...
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Gender and jobs
Mary Curnock Cook is right to point out the issue of gender imbalance in certain subject areas (“Women in STEM ‘sole focus’ of gender imbalance debate”, News, 24 April) where women make up the...
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Deterring plagiarism
Turnitin is a great tool to help identify plagiarism by students. In fact, examination of originality reports is my first action when marking student work in order to eliminate those few students who...
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Is it time to rethink GTA positions?
Graduate teaching assistantships should be scrapped, not only because of the wide discrepancies in pay and working conditions (“Labour of love: huge variation in GTA pay”, News, 24 April) but also...