Shock as new Dutch government slashes higher education funding
Coalition agreement involves?major cuts to research and?university funding alongside harsh new measures for students
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Make ’em laugh: why university teaching needs humour
First international conference on how jokes can improve teaching in higher education was inspired by a lecturer’s drab college course
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Research output higher among postdocs in universities
Plos One study also reveals that parenthood has little impact on publishing productivity
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Postdocs’ career choices swayed by personal values
Research scientists would prefer to align work with own values, study reveals
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Careers intelligence: how postdocs can find jobs outside the academy
Most postdoctoral researchers will end up working outside universities – postdoc adviser Emma Williams has some advice on the tricky business of applying for jobs in different sectors
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Science elite deterred by UK’s costly visas, says Wellcome chief
John-Arne R?ttingen warns that financial difficulties facing UK universities are putting research at risk
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Postdoc Twitter channel sets sights on North America
#ECRchat looks to offer global advice
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Review promised after post-92 PhDs ‘excluded’ from UK postdocs
Economic and Social Research Council will look again at criteria?that exclude PhD graduates from most modern UK universities from applying for postdoctoral funding
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ETH apologises for postdoc job advert demanding ‘Nature paper’
Swiss university has signed San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which says academics should not be judged on the journals they publish in
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Is mentoring the elixir of academic life?
The importance of senior faculty advising junior colleagues on their career trajectories?is increasingly emphasised. But is guidance – and the giving of it – being fairly shared? Should mentoring...
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Professor created ‘culture of fear’ at Dutch university
Investigation finds research careers create ‘perverse incentives’ that cause academics to ‘lose sight of boundaries’
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Ambitious postdocs jostle for scant permanent posts
Poor job security a major issue in survey of chemist and physicist PhD graduates, writes Paul Jump
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California postdocs win better employment terms
After 18 months of wrangling, postdoctoral researchers have finally reached an agreement with the University of California over a contract of employment that they hope will set standards for postdocs...
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Fears for UK research as EU postdoc applications dry up
Senior scientists say severe shortage of junior scientists from European Union threatens quality of UK research
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Research and rescue: how to make postdoc a career
Warwick v-c tasked with stopping 'smart kids' turning their backs on science tells Zoe Corbyn he 'has form'