Wellcome to the ivy league
Low pay and the spiralling cost of first degrees means that life for PhD students is tough and is getting tougher despite some funders' efforts to abolish postgraduate poverty by paying salaries The...
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Civil service's loss becomes lake's gain
The University of Greenwich's Natural Resources Institute, once a an official state agency, is leading efforts to revive one of Africa's natural wonders, reports David Jobbins Lake Tanganyika is one...
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Study your opportunities, they may not be to your liking
Jobs for the new millennium:Ayala Ochert continues our series with a hard look at the prospects for a research career After a PhD, what could be more logical than the progression to postdoctoral...
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How to become a science plagiarist
A FIELD GUIDE FOR SCIENCE WRITERS. Edited by Deborah Blume and Mary Knudson. Oxford University Press, 287pp, Pounds 18.99. ISBN 0 19 510068 9 Most of us learn about science at second or third hand,...
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Millennial tension on the network
BITS OF POWER: Issues in Global Access to Scientific Data. National Research Council (US), 235pp. Pounds 36.95 - 0 309 05635 7 The traditional paper-based way of communicating scientific research has...
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Bill delay causes fee chaos
THE government has admitted that delays in the House of Lords to the Teaching and 糖心Vlog Bill could stop it being implemented in time for next academic year. The admission came in a letter...
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Lack of talented candidates threatens research
DEBT is deterring graduates from taking PhDs. Heads of research councils say the situation will worsen as tuition fees and higher loans are introduced this autumn. They are meeting to discuss ways of...
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Oxbridge to keep college fee
OXFORD and Cambridge universities will keep the college fee next year because there is not enough time left to scrap it. The two universities have been told the fee will remain in 1998-99 for...
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OU strains under cuts strategy
The Open University will have shed 200 staff and cut its student intake by 5,000 before the end of this year, according to accounts sent to the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England. In the...
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Business school chief 'did not bully'
Allegations of nepotism and bullying against Anglia Polytechnic business school head Hugh Jenkins have no foundation, the board of governors' audit and compliance committee has ruled. John Watts,...
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Employers choose their elite league
More than 25 per cent of employers recruit exclusively from an elite group of top universities, a two-year study of employers' attitudes will reveal next week. The GET Report: Graduate Employment and...
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Academy reward for medical science
The Academy of Medical Sciences was launched this week with 350 founder fellows nominated by its sponsors: the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Academy of the Medical Royal Colleges...
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IVF pioneer wins recognition for work
Reshmi Varma, the former director of St George's Hospital's fertility unit who claimed constructive dismissal against the school, has resolved her action amicably at an industrial tribunal. In a...
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Scots call for research assessment watchdog
The Scottish Universities Research Policy Consortium, which includes 14 universities and colleges, has called for a watchdog to ensure that research assessment criteria are applied fairly when...
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Corrections
In the THES survey of vice-chancellors' pay (February 6) the amount of Pounds 83,000 shown under the entry for Queen Margaret College includes both Joan Stringer's remuneration from her appointment...