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Kristi Coale examines the landmark deal between Swiss biotech giant Novartis and the University of California, Berkeley that frees researchers from the need to pursue funding and gives the company...
Kristi Coale examines the landmark deal between Swiss biotech giant Novartis and the University of California, Berkeley that frees researchers from the need to pursue funding and gives the company...
If the prospect of the next research assessment exercise is already getting you down and another short-term contract is all that is on thehorizon, what about taking a job abroad? Over the next few...
Scientists are breaking out of the laboratory. Chris Condron talks to two escapees "There is little question that the prospects look good for science graduates, and have done for the past few years...
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Monday The BBC Wednesday Plays and postwar British drama project, funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, is now in its second year and my mail is becoming relentless. Mondays are...
Baroness Blackstone told a conference in London this week that Labour party plans to boost funding by recovering student maintenance costs would not sustain a high-quality system. But Labour is...
An "army of gypsy professors" is wandering the United States, unable to find full-time employment because higher education is too bottom-heavy, the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
Once upon a time the City couldn't get enough of those promising offspring of campus research - biotechnology companies. Now their stocks have taken a dive. James Norman explains why such a...
Higher Education Trends in this week's THES draws attention to the growing casualisation of the acdemic profession. It is likely, as Lucy Hodges reports (page i), that official figures from the...
SATURDAY. Arrive in Toronto having been relayed from Manchester via the retail mecca which is today's Amsterdam Schiphol airport. The weather seems surprisingly mild. Spend the evening making hasty...
South African lecturer Farid Esack is one of a rare breed, the radical Muslim, unafraid to challenge Islamic prejudice. His appointment to the new Gender Equality Commission is all grist to the mill...
"It all came about as a result of Roger and me talking over a quiet gin and tonic one evening, chatting about the world, the universe, and chemistry." That is how Steven Ley, British Petroleum...
EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www.echo.lu www.europa.eu.int/comm/dg12/. Standards, measurements & testing Contacts: Philippe Quevauviller. Fax: +32-2-295.80.72 Open call for accompanying...
EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www.echo.lu www.europa.eu.int/comm/dg12/. Information technologies (ESPRIT) Contact: email: esprit@dg13.cec.be Open call: Research proposals in domains 1,2,6 and 8....
As term starts a whole crop of new academics is facing its first students, The THES asks what support and training they get. Lecturers starting their first jobs this autumn face an unprecedented...