'Best and brightest' postdocs rewarded
Twenty newly qualified biomedical scientists have each received 拢250,000 awards from the Wellcome Trust in a new scheme to help postdoctoral students start their research careers, writes Louise...
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Maternity leave as a lecturer: at what cost?
Jessica Johnson on the challenges of arranging maternity cover
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Quarter of arts PhDs 鈥榥eglect career development鈥
Many UK doctoral students view professional development as a 鈥榙istraction鈥 or a 鈥榳aste of time鈥, says study
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Funding cuts blamed as blue-skies research 鈥榗ollapses鈥 in Canada
鈥楽hocking鈥 shift away from fundamental projects harms country's scientific reputation, says author of report
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Wake up and value the potential of the postdoc
Early-career researchers can reinvigorate academe, but only if they are given support and job security, argues Paul Wicks Professors profess, lecturers lecture, students study and assistants assist....
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Tolerance, employability and mobility on new ACU chief鈥檚 agenda
Association of Commonwealth Universities can play a central role in making the case for higher education, secretary general says
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Higher education and research are the 鈥榗ollateral damage鈥 of Brexit
The UK wants membership of EU research programmes, but it is hard to see how this happening, says Simon Marginson
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Missed out on a Nobel prize? Here鈥檚 how to win one
After this year鈥檚 laureates were announced, 50 winners share the secrets of their success
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Do we need a Hippocratic oath for academics?
It is time to consider how we can stop senior academics bullying their way on to research papers, says Trisha Greenhalgh
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Leader: Let's cherish our postdoc talents
Anyone who has slogged through school and university to gain a PhD and get a job as a postdoctoral researcher has already demonstrated their dedication to academic life. But too many promising...
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Raising concerns
Students and postdocs, as well as administrative staff, will always be considered expendable when they conflict with a senior academic (鈥淟ife with an abusive lab boss: one postdoc鈥檚 story鈥, Opinion,...
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UK faces biomedical 鈥榖rain drain鈥, study warns
One in three scholars in field 鈥榙eeply concerned鈥 about future research career prospects
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Undergraduates as researchers: vital training, or box-ticking?
Students' work on quantum computing demonstrates their role on the front line of discovery
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Part-time 鈥榩rivate鈥 professors: can they save niche subjects?
Medieval employment practice used by University of Amsterdam may help to preserve under-threat humanities disciplines, experts say
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Postdocs cover for teaching shortfall
When Birmingham University research fellow Silvia Ramos began teaching three years ago, it took her up to four hours to prepare for an hour's tutorial. Now she is a course supervisor for a fourth-...