Germany’s leading rector wants to end university hierarchies
Walter Rosenthal aims to use German Rectors’ Conference presidency to find common ground between applied science and traditional universities
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In Germany, university leaders from the east are still a rarity
Progress is being made on promoting women to top positions, but very few presidents hail from the former Communist bloc
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Casuals, let’s resist universities’ monstrous, penny-pinching ‘systems’
Doing admin is a poor use of your time as an expert. Make sure you invoice for it at your highest rate, says Andy Farnell
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Are true friendships possible in academia?
Alliances with university colleagues can be inspiring and life-affirming but may also be grounded in little more than ambition or survival instinct. Six writers reflect on the joys and challenges of...
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Interdisciplinarity lacks clout to keep its cash
Other disciplines and central administration ‘siphon off’ funding, stunting capacity-building and early career researchers, experts say
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Interview with Marc in het Panhuis
The Dutch scientist on the physics of surfing, his re-entry into additive manufacturing and how he’s ‘drinking from the firehose’ as dean of sport
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Sweden’s education minister vows action against ‘cancel culture’
Minister with a doctorate Mats Persson also tells THE he wants Sweden to attract family-minded international researchers
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Scientists fear funding threat to ‘stellar’ MRC research units
New Medical Research Council funding model will undermine world-famous research centres, claim researchers
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Hundreds of science PhDs face axe as doctoral centres shuttered
Postgraduate training likely to be concentrated in larger universities as EPSRC and Wellcome make cuts
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Daylight on the horizon?
A funding clawback provoked fury from UK scientists, but now all eyes are on a political breakthrough that could reopen the door to Horizon Europe
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Sick of academia? Try the military, says chief defence scientist
Australian armed forces need new blood but are also keen on exchange, says Tanya Monro
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Oxford postdoc ‘pushed out’ after authorship row, tribunal hears
Long-time postdoctoral scientist says he was ousted when he complained a professor had appropriated his own research
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Ukrainian research backed with creation of new maths institute
Four Fields Medal winners and former European Research Council president among advisory board for independent research institute
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Jessica Corner: reforms may ‘substantially shift’ REF weightings
New Research England head reflects on her roundabout route into academia and the future of research evaluation
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THE-Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings research success survey
Are research careers meritocratic? Do universities do enough to support researchers? Is impact more important than publications? Is interdisciplinarity the key to new discoveries? Can...