By Rachael Pells for Times Higher Education. Many a researcher will surely have thought about testing their loved ones as to whether or not they really did read their work -- but one statistician from China appears to have gone a step further by leaving a romantic message to his partner. More...

By Chris Havergal for Times Higher Education. Want your students to think more creatively? The trick, a new study suggests, is all in the timing.
In an experiment, groups of students were found to generate twice as many ideas when they were quizzed around midday, compared with at the start or the end of the working day. More...

Trenita B. Childers explores how race shapes the narrative about motherhood in the academy. More...

First, a word to any current graduate students reading this: visit your campus career center and sit down to chat with your career adviser. Do not wait until the month before you graduate. Do not wait until your résumé is “ready” or “good enough” for another human being to see. Do not wait until you know exactly what you want to do with your life. Go now. More...

While a video format -- such as Skype, Zoom, Google Hangouts and the like -- can make the job-interview process convenient for both the candidate and search committee members, candidates should carefully consider certain aspects of it, writes Ramon B. Goings. More...

Our institutions and higher education in general will suffer if we fail to recognize our common enterprise and transcend our inclination toward autonomy, argues Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt. More...

The first step is to understand why it matters and why you, as a job candidate, are being asked to write one, advises Victoria Reyes. More...