Doofaas and Boojums
After learning that the project to put postdocs into schools has been dubbed Inspire, after INovative Scheme for Postdocs In Research and Education (back page), the Diary was delighted to discover a...
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Physicists fail to stall cuts despite subject review
Physicists and astronomers battling with their research council over plans to cut funding heard this week that there would be no reprieve while the Government-initiated Wakeham review of physics...
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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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Suitors sought for overlooked but loaded LoLas
The BBSRC wants academics alert to the potential of its multimillion-pound long-term grants.
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Teaching: Superficiality breeds contempt
Tim Birkhead challenges a state of affairs where academics are too busy chasing research grants to inspire their students
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Marie Curie stirs the fellows
The Marie Curie Fellowship Association, set up by the European Union to promote its fellowship scheme for postdoctoral scientists, is starting to play a key political role as a voice for young...
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Fish, football and flights of fancy
Name: Jens Krause Age: 41 Job: Professor of behavioural ecology, Leeds University. Background: First degree at the Free University Berlin, Germany, followed by an MPhil at Queens' College, Cambridge...
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'The snake started moving. it gave me a big shock but we had to catch it'
A close encounter with a killer python in Florida has not deterred St Andrews PhD student Joanne Potts. As a young researcher, Joanne Potts had an early introduction to the rigours of fieldwork by...
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In brief 1
I am in the writing-up stage of my own PhD ("How I stripped away postdoc depression", THES , September 20) and I have become so depressed that I am now watching the QVC shopping channel. What will I...
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Academe risks losing talent
Postdocs are 'the forgotten' in UK universities, lacking adequate support and advice, reports Anthea Lipsett. Universities risk losing the cream of young British research talent to industry and...
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No new year cheer here
Alan Ryan declares "Bah, Humbug!" to resolutions for university funding
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Our plan for an elite institution is 'audacious but achievable'
Official says Saudis will have an independent, world-class university by next year. John Gill reports
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The seven deadly sins of the academy
Matthew Reisz and our seven guest contributors lift the lid on the rampant wickedness troubling the sanctity of our hallowed universities
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Scramble for staff
As many US universities stop hiring or cut posts in the downturn, others see a chance to snap up the best and the brightest - particularly those with their own grants. Jon Marcus reports
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Generation games 2
How ironic that you have a pro vice-chancellor patronisingly splitting academics into old and cynical worn down husks and young virile and able staff ("Carping is a real senior disservice", February...