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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'We've gone beyond bottom pinching... but this is worse'
Institutionalised sexism discourages many women from a career in science. What's being done about it? asks Helen Hague. Baroness Greenfield broke the pre-publication purdah surrounding her keenly...
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Tenure challenged by private university
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...
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Cutting edge: David Caplin
The discovery of a new superconductor leads to sleepless nights in Seattle and a surfing frenzy in Los Alamos. Superconductivity is one of nature's more exotic phenomena - perpetual motion in action...
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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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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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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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The future rides on real commitment to science
In the second of our summer series on education at the century's end, Jean-Patrick Connerade discusses the future for young researchers Is Britain well prepared to remain a leading nation in the next...
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An invitation to dine at the periodic table
When Lutz Tietze hung up his lab coat, his students presented him with a collection of recipes from the world's top organic chemists. Karen Gold found the work far from formulaic. A Buchner funnel,...
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Analysis: More staff earn £50K-plus
Growing numbers of academics are earning six-figure salaries, a É«ºÐÖ±²¥S 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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Alan Hale's open letter
"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...
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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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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...
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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 Schön's old laboratory at the University of Konstanz in Germany did not appear out of...