By Joanne Begiato, Lorna Campbell, Steven Gray and Isaac Land. When you’re in the hot seat, don’t yawn or shoehorn in your own research. And for goodness sake, get speakers’ names right. More...

By Keegan Thomson. This year the QS best student cities rankings rated Sydney the fourth best city in the world for students, and from where I sit it’s easy to see why. More...

By Eric Cheung. The pearl of the orient boasts a unique cultural blend and some of Asia’s top universities – but life doesn’t come cheap. More...

By Helen Lock. Writing grant applications can be both tedious and nail-biting. It is, nonetheless, a fundamental part of academic life. All disciplines place emphasis on winning funding to get ahead, but competition is intense, particularly for early career researchers. More...

By Sally Weale. Jo Johnson says higher education institutions will have to pay for non-medical support staff from next September. More...

By Esra Gurkan. You don’t need to have come from a privileged background to get a job through contacts – get online and make connections yourself. More...

By Joshua Forstenzer and Matthew Flinders. The higher education green paper is a radical document, explicitly designed to change universities. But beyond the debates about metrics, funding structures and social mobility is a far more fundamental reframing – of the very concept of higher education. More...

By Max Harris. The training route to becoming a solicitor has been criticised for providing inconsistent results. Could a more centralised system be the answer. More...

By Judith Vonberg. Family commitments and limited funding options mean there is a growing number of PhD students attempting to keep up from afar. More...

By Anonymous academic. I care about my students, but poor pay, discrimination and unrealistic workloads are making me want to quit. More...