An article in the Independent today reporting that black graduates are three times more likely to be unemployed than white graduates does not surprise me, though it saddens me. Contrary to popular belief, in the current climate a good education does not offer hardworking black graduates any indemnity against unemployment.

About a year ago a very good friend of mine who has since finished writing up his PhD thesis, excitedly told me one day how life-changing the process of undertaking a PhD was proving to be for him. At the time, as a fledgling doctoral researcher still in the throes of figuring out the full [...]

Postgraduate researchers rate supervision as the most important aspect of a doctoral research programme, according to a new survey by the Higher Education Academy (HEA). The Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2011, now in its fourth year, gathers the views of current postgraduate research students across the UK. Supervision has