Postgraduate and early career
Top US funding agency considers $70,000 (?55,000) minimum salary that could become wider model
Reimagined PhD that provides students with business training and industry contacts is attracting interest from governments and science philanthropists
Removal of personal and affiliation details means assessors judge the idea rather than the researcher’s track record
Recently announced changes to skilled worker visa ‘bitter news’, says European Research Council president Maria Leptin
Loss of access to EThOS archive of 600,000 doctoral dissertations causes major disruption for PhD students
Higher satisfaction levels among the rising numbers of Indian and Pakistani students have led to strong approval ratings for UK universities, says Advance HE
Analysis of 5.8 million authors across all scientific disciplines also shows gender gap is closing, but with distance to go
Lost earnings and missed workplace experience means PhD graduates will take decades to catch up on postgraduates despite higher wages, analysis shows
Barely half of postgraduate researchers in the UK and Australia feel like they are part of a community of postgraduate researchers, according to major survey
Record walkout at top public US system won graduate students a new contract, but ambiguous details have left them struggling with lower-than-expected pay
Proposed threshold fails to take account of funding challenges facing universities, sector groups say
Overall decline in number of doctoral candidates winning support masks even sharper drop among UK-domiciled applicants
They need the money and graduate students identify with them, but universities don’t formalise the link, analysts warn
Most Grand Canyon University students on affected programmes had to pay as much as $12,000 (?10,000) more than advertised, says Department of Education
Lack of publicly available data on doctoral degree holders is allowing people to add fake credentials to their resumés, says research fraud expert
Review finds only one in three institutions publishes guidance on alternative doctorate format
More than 1,000 signatories back petition demanding the Arts and Humanities Research Council examine how doctoral funding changes will affect disadvantaged students
Funder’s ‘New Deal’ will examine welfare arrangements for PhD students but insists they are better off ‘without an employment contract’
Arts and Humanities Research Council funding ‘has been some sort of oasis, but it too is now quickly drying up’
UK funder will support fewer PhD studentships as cost pressures from reduced funding and higher doctoral stipends bite
With job prospects slim in Japanese academia, PhD students may need to look outside country for further employment, researcher suggests
Karl Andersson’s article about his use of provocative images of young boys caused outrage among MPs and scholars
Academia can only host a fraction of doctoral graduates, but few universities collect destinations data showing where their other PhDs end up, making it hard to prepare new recruits for appealing alternatives
Watchdog expresses concern as employers increasingly look for higher degrees
People were remotely studying for higher degrees long before Covid, researchers say, and universities should pay them more attention
Angered by pay and conditions, more than 90 per cent of student workers voting to unionise, well above 75 per cent pre-Covid average, annual analysis finds
Anger over ‘double-taxing’ of foreign researchers thanks to ?1,000-plus levy is causing scientific talent to explore job opportunities outside the UK, warn scientists
Doctoral candidates at their wits’ end as visa processing stalls again
Guaranteed interviews for ethnic minority applicants of a certain standard would also tackle postgraduate underrepresentation, says Research England-backed initiative
September will see thousands of thesis defenders invited to swear oath to scientific ethics and integrity, but many remain sceptical of ritual’s value
After tackling the challenges of accessing large and diverse survey samples, Phelim Bradley’s Prolific is moving into AI
Learned societies question quality of data, mismatch to EU goals, choice of indicators and ignorance of social and political contexts used by planned monitoring tool
I want my research to fuel change and make a positive impact on the world, and I do not want to suffer in the process, says Heidi Green
Recent drops of up to 15 per cent in enrolments blamed on tougher security screening, stingy stipends and a hybrid system creating a crowded market for top-level qualifications
Universities seek to recruit more – and more diverse – students by offering range of enrolment points
Just months after ending largest-ever walkout among teaching staff, workers at 10-campus public system complain about unfulfilled promises and arrests
Doctoral students drive Iranian science, but the country’s low spending means that they often lack access to basic resources, says Roohola Ramezani
‘Morally supportive’ but implicitly dismissive, universities exacerbate students’ struggles with their ‘child-free’ ethos
Laureate says research laboratories ‘are not kindergartens’, but other prizewinners urge a more supportive approach
Overall US recruitment from overseas up 8 per cent at postgraduate level, according to annual survey
Flat or declining enrolments across Australia spell trouble for university finances and the broader economy, observers warn
Doctoral students at home petition New Delhi for a 60 per cent rise in stipends, amid rising living costs and appeal of overseas job market
Leading US science funding agency reports three straight years of record levels of awards to its early-stage applicants, with some gender and racial gains
Tracking doctoral alumni in other sectors would inform departments about what their specific training allows graduates to do, says Patrick Walsh
‘Lottery’ for mandated replication studies would encourage ‘greater care’ over ‘datasets’, Australian researchers argue
PhD candidates face ‘inconsistencies and inequalities’ in the support provided by supervisors, says British Academy-funded study
Flagship programme that places graduates in local schools to teach faces uncertain future as participation dwindles
Constant rejections for academic jobs took a bigger emotional toll than anything they encountered during their PhDs, says Michelle de Souza
Attempt to balance interests of employers and researchers pleases no one, and weekend Twitter storm forces the plan ‘back to the assembly hall’
Postgraduate training likely to be concentrated in larger universities as EPSRC and Wellcome make cuts
Telling precariously employed literature scholars to just hang in there doesn’t cut it in a job market as bad as today’s, says Chris Townsend
Belated moves to mitigate precarity are welcome but may come too late for one scholar exhausted by insecurity
Lengthy government security checks on STEM postgraduates are causing chaos for university research as doctoral candidates go elsewhere, says Russell Group
Students often have no choice but to include professors who have had no input into papers as co-authors, says Roohola Ramezani
European universities outline blueprint to improve doctoral training but acknowledge some professors can’t or won’t change their ways
As NIH pushes for improvement on racial and gender measures, drag attributed to growing segment of non-diverse principal investigators
University admits it could have been more flexible when making decision that affected postgraduate’s right to stay in the UK
Maria Toft sparked national conversation about exploitation with #pleasedontstealmywork campaign, but she says it came at the cost of her Copenhagen fellowship
Leading institutions switching from exams to interviews for admission, but students from many universities are excluded from this route
Graduate student workers energised after record walkout, though meaningful improvements remain a long slog for majority still in economically precarious contingent teaching
