Regions lose skills as PhDs follow jobs
Study examines impact of postdocs' mobility on local economies, says Olga Wojtas Two fifths of PhD students move out of the geographical region in which they study after finishing their doctorate, a...
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Female quartet engineer big success at Edinburgh
Four women have made history at Edinburgh University through their appointment as professors in the School of Engineering and Electronics. Rebecca Barthelmie, Rebecca Cheung, Andrea Schaefer and Roya...
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There's the rub...
A postgraduate student, a postdoc and a professor find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a genie emerges in a puff of smoke. The genie says: "I usually grant only three wishes, so I'll give each...
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Rift over pay threatens expansion
Conflicting priorities within Whitehall in the run-up to the government's strategic paper on higher education are threatening to produce a logjam in academic salaries that could hamper ministers'...
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'We're overworked and underpaid,' PhDs tell research council
Young researchers challenged senior research council figures this week to explain how they were expected to survive job insecurity and insufficient funding, writes Anna Fazackerley. PhD and...
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Life for PhD students is 'on the up'
Elizabeth Barlow is one of the lucky ones, writes Mark Rodgers. Dr Barlow is a research fellow in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Southampton University and she said that she was surprised to...
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Research council demands that fellows spread the word
Susan Deuchars's academic fellowship involves not only research and teaching but also explaining her brand of biological science to primary schoolchildren and even a Beaver Cub group, writes Anthea...
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Popular beat may drown out genius
The 'audit society' rewards those scientists who dance to its tune, says Peter Lawrence. Too busy working? Two left feet? Too bad It is fun to imagine songwriters being assessed as scientists are...
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UK boosts its tally of Nobel laureates
Universities hope signing up big names will inspire new stars, says Tony Tysome. Manchester University is close to recruiting another Nobel laureate, adding to the UK's haul of international research...
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'What a waste': 2008's rejects vent dismay
Online, those academics left out of the research assessment tell of pain, politics and bias, writes Zoë Corbyn. Ben Anderson was excluded from the research assessment exercise because neither his...
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Even a social animal had to learn to use the schmooze
Wary of parties? Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers advice on avoiding faux pas, while Anna Fazackerley discovers the secrets of a supreme networker When scientist Nancy Lane graduated from Oxford...
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Rankings rankle 2
Your article "Hardbacks and hard drives win some hard cash" (May 21) ignores one of your tables in which Cambridge University and most other Russell Group institutions are consistently bottom - the...
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From brain drain to bright future
Cambridge leads the field in producing Nobel science laureates, but many of the UK's best scientists have left to pursue work in the US. Matthew Reisz finds out from past winners what tempted them to...
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Today's news
Jobs cull is gathering pace Hundreds of academic jobs are being culled across Britain as smaller and middle-ranking universities restructure subject provision to compete for research cash. ...
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Summer time and the living is easy...
... but not if you're an academic, says Anna Fazackerley, who finds quite a few on a busman's holiday, hunched over a PC or working hard in the lab. For James Tooley, professor of education at...