The myth of Giddens' Porsche
Michael North reports on the opportunities for academic writers to reach a popular readership and asks established authors for their top tips. The philosopher A. C. Grayling recalls that in the 1980s...
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Get a life? Not with our hours
New guidelines on work-life balance have met with scepticism. Phil Baty reports. Richard White does not have much of a personal life. He is a -year old postdoctoral student at Imperial College London...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Spent the weekend working on EU proposals. Has it been worthwhile? With only a 10-15 per cent chance of success, should we have invested three weeks of our time in an 80-page proposal? Yes....
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Trainees demand worker status
Three thousand trainee research-ers converged on Madrid last month to deliver a list of complaints to the Spanish government. They claim that while they are officially classified as students, their...
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Sanger maps out profitable vocation
The electronic scroll display behind the reception desk at the Sanger Institute near Cambridge still flashes up 60 million DNA bases a day. But with the map of the human genome all but complete, the...
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What ?1.25bn really means to scientists
Stephen Winter , head of the 3a-rated computer science department at Westminster University, was hoping to see money made available for improving departments. He said: "Our department has steadily...
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Lab crisis as poor pay hits staff quality
Some British universities are recruiting sub-standard researchers because of a shortage of high-calibre candidates. In a survey of deans of science, carried out by the pressure group Save British...
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Insular Spanish academy threatened by reforms
THES reporters examine appointment systems worldwide: Legislation is radically changing the way Spanish universities select their staff. Under a law that came into force on January 14, would-be...
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An invitation to dine at the periodic table
When Lutz Tietze hung up his lab coat, his students presented him with a collection of recipes from the world's top organic chemists. Karen Gold found the work far from formulaic. A Buchner funnel,...
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Cutting edge: David Caplin
The discovery of a new superconductor leads to sleepless nights in Seattle and a surfing frenzy in Los Alamos. Superconductivity is one of nature's more exotic phenomena - perpetual motion in action...
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'We've gone beyond bottom pinching... but this is worse'
Institutionalised sexism discourages many women from a career in science. What's being done about it? asks Helen Hague. Baroness Greenfield broke the pre-publication purdah surrounding her keenly...
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Cooperate to contend
Research collaboration in Europe could be the way to compete with the US, says Ian Halliday. It seems appropriate in the week after the research assessment exercise results to turn from a domestic...
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Tenure challenged by private university
Four years after publishing a book that stoked debate on Canadian universities, Peter Emberley has further fanned the flames by accepting a private university job, where he is speaking out against...
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A tale of two departments
* Department of chemistry, Imperial College, London 1996 RAE rating: 5 Number of lecturers and professors: 41 Number of post-docs:97 Number of PhD students:175 Research income from the funding...
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Alan Hale's open letter
"I was inspired by the scientific discoveries taking place during my childhood to pursue a career in science only to find, after completing the rigours of undergraduate and graduate school, that the...