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The article examines how academics are spending less time thinking, reading and writing because they are spending more time filling out forms and documents. Topics covered include how the bureaucracy is interconnected with the transformation of academic institutions into commercial enterprises and how the new university management imposes audit, evaluation, assessment and accreditation for increased value for money.

The article discusses study conducted by Lisa Lines from University of New South Wales according to which cheating by students who use essay mills is undetectable and ghostwritten papers would receive good marks if submitted. Topics include warning signs contained in essays that could be detected by academics, need of radical steps to combat use of essay mills and views of Phil Newton from Swansea University Medical School, on need of diversification of assessment methods by higher educations.

The article offers suggestions from senior university administrators including Amanda Shilton Godwin, Jacqui Marshall, and Kim Frost on how to secure a university job by writing better currículum vitae (CV). Topics discussed include covering career history, achievements and responsibilities, and skills and behavior in CV, ensuring the skill profile to be displayed at top to gain attention of busy recruiters; and making it easy for recruiter to shortlist the CV based on job requirements.

The article reports on the findings of a research which demonstrated how an understanding of reliance on management research in the workplace will assist academics in planning their dissemination strategies. Topics discussed include the survey on knowledge-intensive organizations involved in the healthcare sector and the various motivations of agents who utilize management research in their work. The transformation of managers into "knowledge objects" is then mentioned.

The article reports that publishing giant Elsevier has denied to force academics in Great Britain to sign up to its other services in order to use the newly acquired Social Science Research Network (SSRN) repository. Topics include Elsevier's purchase of SSRN marks attempt to maintain control over publishing, and view of open access advocates, who have been highly critical of Elsevier that the publisher could crack down on the free dissemination of papers.

The article focuses on the controversy surrounding the mass authorship of academic research papers. Topics discussed include the rising number of scientific and non-scientific papers listing more than 1,000 authors and the tendency for established academics to seek accreditation and co-authorship with undergraduates, an issue known as doctorate supervision. The need for greater collaboration among academics is also mentioned.

The article discusses the suggestions made by the Great Britain-based professional institution Higher Education Academy (HEA) for the government's teaching excellence framework, known as Green Paper, that focuses on improving the quality of teaching in colleges and universities. The emphasis on recognizing and rewarding teachers is suggested to enhance the motivational level. Further, the need and benefits of becoming an HEA member is mentioned.

The article reports that Jeroen Huisman, professor of higher education at the Belgium's Ghent University, has told Times Higher Education that he was approached by official at university in China. He was told that he would be paid a total of 300,000 yuan (£35,703) if he was able to produced total of three journal papers, appearing in Thomson Reuters' Web of Science.

The article opines that the citizens of Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois were reported by the local paper as living in "fear" of the feckless menace "transient academics" which should be shocking to many university people. Topics include the reaction of academics, suggesting that the profession felt that it rather than any rootlessness was under attack and up until 2011, professors stated to be the third most trusted profession.

The author explores the different approaches being used by academics and researchers to imparting their scientific findings from journal articles. Topics covered include data visualization or the use of graphics in presenting data in academic papers, the process of explaining research using the 1,000 most commonly used words in the English language and the provision of tweets to the medical journal that summarize a study.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Plausible nihility" by Fred Inglis and "Cull of London Met UCU pair sparks 'union victimisation' claim" in the May 19, 2016 issue and the recent White Paper, which talks much of "teaching excellence."

The article focuses on the bond between academics and their pet cats. Topics discussed include the discovery of a medieval Italian manuscript by University of Sarajevo Professor Emir Filipovic which was almost ruined by a cat and the preservation of historical documents from rat infestation with the help of cats. The decision of American physicist Jack Hetherington to name his cat, Chester, as his co-author in his research paper is also mentioned.

The author emphasizes the need to provide academics more structured support as they deal with improving public engagement in Great Britain. He says academics known for their public engagement were virtually sacrificing their academic career based on a research paper. He suggests incorporating some measure of public engagement in the metrics used for the teaching excellence framework. He cites that this approach would serve as a reward for efforts to promote higher education.

This section offers news briefs on higher education in Great Britain as of September 2015 including Scottish universities concerned about losing their status as charities, the tendency for academics to rise up the citations list through snappy titles for their papers and Great Britain's ranking as the world's top destination for fashion students.

The article discusses a research paper on the impact of work attire on the approachability and likeability of academics, which references a study by Amber Chatelain, published in an issue of the "Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management".

The article reveals that a paper by Richard Watermeyer, associate professor of sociology of education at the University of Warwick, has found that academics who dedicate significant amounts of time to public engagement are sacrificing their academic career.

The article presents the opinion of Carole Goble, professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in England, on the lack of transparency of scholars' research methods for their academic papers, as told during her address at the Jisc Digital Festival 2015 held in Birmingham, England. Issues tackled by Goble include the knowledge-turning mechanism of researchers, the problem of academic rivalry, and the approach of researchers to software.