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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...
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...
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...
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...
* 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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
Allegations of research fraud have scandalised physics. Steve Farrar reports. The machine sitting in Jan Hendrik Schön's old laboratory at the University of Konstanz in Germany did not appear out of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...