Everyone's a winner
Luring new blood to Finland is broadening horizons for native professors, says Mikko Sams The first academics appointed under a new scheme to attract researchers to Finland's universities and...
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The long drive to bring early-career researchers in from cold
Preparing researchers for careers in and outside academe has been a longstanding issue for the Government, research councils, universities and employers alike. But the topic came to the fore with the...
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Stars of wonder
From nativity scenes to Apollo 8 and Beagle 2, our eternal fascination with the heavens is never greater than at Christmas, recounts Colin Pillinger
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Research stars like talent by their side
Anna Fazackerley looks at a trend for academics to travel in teams to new posts Most universities cannot lure research stars by offering super-size salaries, not least because it would not look good...
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£25m for language centres
Five centres launched this week will boost the numbers of researchers in languages and area studies. The aim of the £25 million language-based area studies initiative is to produce more academics who...
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Ask the panel
I have a question about my conditions of employment as a postdoc on a Natural Environment Research Council project. Is it usual practice to issue contracts on a yearly basis for projects funded for...
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It's up to us to keep the sharks out of our pool
Universities have to fight to eradicate the bogus colleges that harm the UK's reputation, says Gerald Vinten. Rather like in the movie Jaws , it seems that one never knows what is lurking in the...
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JAF Meeting 15/16 February 2006, Agenda Item 10 - a New COST Instrument: Young Investigators Network (YIN) (link)
Brussels, Jan 2006 Full text of Document 204/06 Suite of documents 204/06 To: COST Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) Subject: JAF meeting 15/16 February 2006, agenda item 10 - A new COST Instrument...
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Footnotes and fancy-free
We should teach PhD students how to balance the conflicting demands of scholarship and dissemination, says Peter Barry
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Scientists want time to talk
Universities should give scientists more time and greater rewards for communicating their subject to the public, this week's British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) festival heard....
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£8m pot to coax wary publicists
RCUK supports researchers fearful of disapproving peers, writes Anthea Lipsett Academics keen to boost their public profiles and publicise their work will benefit from an £8 million initiative to...
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Skies stay dark for astronomypostdocs
Only 20 per cent of PhD students in astronomy will manage to secure jobs in their field, according to a new report. An investigation by the Royal Astronomical Society found that while it is easy for...
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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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Blue-sky thinking that led to an astronomical ambition
Profile: Lisa Jardine-Wright astrophysicist, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Lisa Jardine-Wright is on a mission: to change the image of physics, writes Rebecca Attwood. With the number of...
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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...