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...
The BBSRC wants academics alert to the potential of its multimillion-pound long-term grants.
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...
Tim Birkhead challenges a state of affairs where academics are too busy chasing research grants to inspire their students
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Alan Ryan declares "Bah, Humbug!" to resolutions for university funding
Official says Saudis will have an independent, world-class university by next year. John Gill reports
Matthew Reisz and our seven guest contributors lift the lid on the rampant wickedness troubling the sanctity of our hallowed universities
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
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...