The gap between the real world and the words
Since the concordat for career management of contract research staff was introduced, its implementation has been patchy. At Imperial College two contract researchers are taking the struggle to the...
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Oxbridge brains reunion at MSR
Tony Durham meets the men directing Microsoft's innovative research programme in Cambridge The retired head of the Cambridge University computer laboratory holds forth as he paces the room, while the...
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Vive the open PhD viva!
Ruth Morse advocates the French system of appraising doctoral students and appointing new lecturers All over France, doctoral students are struggling with their last revisions because they know they...
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Analysis: More staff earn ?50K-plus
Growing numbers of academics are earning six-figure salaries, a THES survey has revealed. But what about those lower down the scale? Alison Goddard reports. More and more university staff are earning...
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Cambridge in chaos as Capsa fails to add up
Cambridge University could soon "grind to a halt" because of major problems with its new Pounds 8 million accounts system, according to angry staff. Accounts managers are warning of a "grave risk" to...
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Group's call for a 'third way' towards PhDs based on the European experience
A third way of getting a PhD should be introduced, according to the United Kingdom Council for Graduate Education. At present, British students submit a dissertation for a traditional PhD while...
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For whom the Bell tolls?
Allegations of research fraud have scandalised physics. Steve Farrar reports. The machine sitting in Jan Hendrik Sch?n's old laboratory at the University of Konstanz in Germany did not appear out of...
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The not so odd couple
Poor career guidance and isolation are issues for many women working in science, technology and engineering. Mixed-sex mentoring may be a solution, as Sharon Ann Holgate finds out. "It was a...
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Cambridge bars outsiders
Students and dons have closed ranks against proposals to allow outsiders with real-world experience on to Cambridge University's executive council. One angry academic said the plan would destroy...
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You need tunnel vision to spend summer here
Why are particle physicists from all over the world converging on a three-and-a-half-mile tunnel in Illinois? In the third in our series on what researchers do in summer, Terry Wyatt reports from...
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How to get a job in science policy
Tired of doing research? Why not switch camps and helpdecide who gets the vital funding In universities all over the country, one of the great topics of common-room conversation is the allocation of...
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The 6th EU Research Framework Programme
The 6th EU Research Framework Programme Bruxelles, le juin 2002 Frequently asked questions What is the EU Research Framework Programme (FP)? The FP is the EU's main instrument for research funding in...
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Funds needed to employ best
The extra Pounds 1 billion for science announced by chancellor Gordon Brown this week must be matched with funds to attract top lecturers and researchers, universities have warned. Tony Bruce, policy...
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From paper to data
Susan Whitfield once worried that her 'techie' research would hinder her career. As a showcase conference opens, she asks universities to reward digital work in the arts Paper and printing,...
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Partnership is the way forward
Dear Ron... Our two final open letters to the Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education urge it to conisder the student point of view. Jamie Darwen chair of the National Postgraduate...