Stern might change the rules, but the REF game is still a game
Kirsty Rolfe says the portability proposal does nothing to ease the fears and worries of young researchers struggling to start careers
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Adviser helps postdocs get on the right track
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...
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How I stripped away postdoc depression
Simon Francis found himself with a PhD in one hand, a toilet brush in the other - and no desire for academic life A year ago, the sense of achievement that my doctorate had once given me had reached...
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Princeton academic's 'failure CV' sparks debate on success
Johannes Haushofer lists failures in attempt to 'balance the record' on how he climbed the greasy pole of academia
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Bid to put postdocs into schools
A scheme to put postdocs into schools was launched by prime minister Tony Blair yesterday. The collaboration between schools, universities and industry aims to inspire an interest in science by...
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UCL expenses rules mean staff seen as 鈥榠nherently untrustworthy鈥
University revises policy after backlash from academics
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The 25 most-read 探花视频 articles of 2015
The most popular higher education articles of the year, based on website traffic
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Is research a fertile hunting ground for narcissists?
A new book by Bruno Lemaitre considers whether science is suffering from being led by the self-obsessed
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Postdoctoral researchers to be made Cambridge alumni
Former postdoctoral researchers will now be counted as alumni at the University of Cambridge
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Let the right ones in
I am quite shocked that the number of 鈥済host鈥 authors is so high and that there are therefore a significant number of academics who are cutting out graduate students and postdocs from receiving...
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Large rate my professor study finds gender bias in comments
University of Illinois research finds 鈥榖rilliant鈥 or 鈥榞enius鈥 more often used to describe male academics
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Good scientist or successful academic? You can't be both
Reflecting on the plight of the early career scholar prompts Xenia Schmalz to draw up a research manifesto
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It鈥檚 not the end of the world if your research gets 鈥榮cooped鈥
Take it as a compliment if other people are doing similar studies to you, says Sam Schwarzkopf
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Academic fixed-term jobs changes in Germany split opinion
A new law to support early career researchers has reopened arguments over limits on the use of short-term contracts in the country
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Happily ever after? Advice for mid-career academics
Getting a permanent job is only the beginning, not a fairy-tale ending, says Helen De Cruz