Brazilian postgrad and postdoc funding could end amid economic crisis
Drastic cuts necessary?if?funding situation not resolved, government agency warns
Drastic cuts necessary?if?funding situation not resolved, government agency warns
Martin Chalfie argues that young scientists who ‘play the game’ of publishing in selective journals are less likely to win permanent posts
Anne Forde recently took up a post at Cambridge University as a careers adviser dedicated to supporting postdoctoral researchers in the life sciences, writes Olga Wojtas. Cambridge has about 500...
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is on a mission to find out where the postdoctoral students it funds end up, according to Dame Julia Higgins, the chair of the council. The...
Inflated marks, overworked staff and politically compromised courses are the price of exploiting offshore UK-registered students, says Michael Day
Postdoctoral researchers in the social sciences and humanities are twice as likely to secure permanent posts in their universities than those in the biological and physical sciences, official figures...
Brussels, 19 Feb 2004 A survey by The Scientist has found that access to publications and journals is considered the most important attribute of a university by postdoctorate researchers. The journal...
Brussels, 19 Feb 2004 A survey by The Scientist has found that access to publications and journals is considered the most important attribute of a university by postdoctorate researchers. The journal...
New programme hopes to take Israel-US 'academic friendship to the next level’
Why are postgraduates and postdocs so expendable and professors so untouchable, asks a geneticist subjected to a paranoid boss’ abuse
Clearly describing the inefficient and damaging situation might point the way to better alternatives, says Eric Silverman
For most young researchers, academic research is the love of their life. But how much can and should be sacrificed for this love?, asks Sibylle Anderl
They think I’m a rising star, says a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford, but my hopes of a real career in science are sinking
Brussels, 25 Nov 2003 Last year the international science magazine The Scientist invited readers in the USA, Canada and western Europe to give their opinions of the 'Best places to work for postdocs...