Brussels, 05 Mar 2004 A French survey has found that the difficulty of combining career and family roles hampers the international mobility of female researchers. Although the move to postdoc is as...
Brussels, 05 Mar 2004 A French survey has found that the difficulty of combining career and family roles hampers the international mobility of female researchers. Although the move to postdoc is as...
Europe's ambitious targets mean that research students have 'never had it so good'. Mark Rodgers reports. Young academics will benefit from an unprecedented Europe-wide boom in research jobs,...
Tim Birkhead challenges a state of affairs where academics are too busy chasing research grants to inspire their students
Officials must not forget that staff are responsible for a university's success, says Philip G. Altbach
Official says Saudis will have an independent, world-class university by next year. John Gill reports
A prepositional change in my piece on academic and other tenure (Opinion, December 16) seems to have made it appear that I "presently" have 75 postdocs. This is, of course, the lifetime number (at an...
Britain is gripped by an unfounded "moral panic" that it needs to produce more home-grown science graduates to keep the economy competitive, the director of a six-year, £5 million science and society...
Name: Anne Cooke Age: 31 Job: Neuroscience research facilitator and communications manager, Bristol University. Education: BA natural sciences (neurophysiology) at Cambridge University and then a PhD...
... try the real world and see just how lucky we academics are, says Tim Birkhead
The prospectus's weathered cloisters and flawless cheekbones are alluring, admits John Brinnamoor, but a dash of realism mightn't hurt
Olga Wojtas reports on the mentoring schemes set up to help women gain confidence and progress in a male-dominated academic world. Ever wished for someone to turn to for advice when you feel your...
University bureaucracy is too often built by those who neither know nor care who academics are or what they need, says Tim Birkhead. Researchers and teachers are victims of a burgeoning bureaucracy...
A postdoctoral researcher who has been hailed as an "awesome" teacher by his students fears that he will be forced to leave higher education because career advancement is based too rigidly on...
Academic eyebrows were raised when forensic psychologist Kathy Charles appeared in The Scottish Sun commenting on a series of notorious unsolved crimes. In typical Sun style, she was compared to the...