Fish, football and flights of fancy
Name: Jens Krause Age: 41 Job: Professor of behavioural ecology, Leeds University. Background: First degree at the Free University Berlin, Germany, followed by an MPhil at Queens' College, Cambridge...
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Who got that job?
Michael Willis, chemistry lecturer, Chemical Research Laboratory, department of chemistry, Oxford University. Job advertised in The Times Higher , June 16, 2006 After two weeks of unpacking and...
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'The snake started moving. it gave me a big shock but we had to catch it'
A close encounter with a killer python in Florida has not deterred St Andrews PhD student Joanne Potts. As a young researcher, Joanne Potts had an early introduction to the rigours of fieldwork by...
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Ten-year v tenure: do academics need MOTs?
Perhaps university posts shouldn't be for life, but they shouldn't be just for Christmas, either, says Douglas Kell Every year, motor cars are put through MOT tests to assess their fitness for...
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Contractual errors 1
Elizabeth Barlow is indeed one of the lucky ones ("Life for PhD students is on the up", August 11). The Roberts review may have benefited researchers in the sciences and engineering and social...
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Teaching: Superficiality breeds contempt
Tim Birkhead challenges a state of affairs where academics are too busy chasing research grants to inspire their students
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It's the faculty, stupid!
Officials must not forget that staff are responsible for a university's success, says Philip G. Altbach
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's David Phillips...
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Research boost will bring jobs bonanza
Europe's ambitious targets mean that research students have 'never had it so good'. Mark Rodgers reports. Young academics will benefit from an unprecedented Europe-wide boom in research jobs,...
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Because of Family Responsibilities, Women Researchers are Less Internationally Mobile Than Men, Study Shows
Brussels, 05 Mar 2004 A French survey has found that the difficulty of combining career and family roles hampers the international mobility of female researchers. Although the move to postdoc is as...
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Because of Family Responsibilities, Women Researchers are Less Internationally Mobile Than Men, Study Shows
Brussels, 05 Mar 2004 A French survey has found that the difficulty of combining career and family roles hampers the international mobility of female researchers. Although the move to postdoc is as...
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Our plan for an elite institution is 'audacious but achievable'
Official says Saudis will have an independent, world-class university by next year. John Gill reports
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Don't 'panic' over science-shy Britons, ESRC says
Britain is gripped by an unfounded "moral panic" that it needs to produce more home-grown science graduates to keep the economy competitive, the director of a six-year, £5 million science and society...
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Counting on the future
A prepositional change in my piece on academic and other tenure (Opinion, December 16) seems to have made it appear that I "presently" have 75 postdocs. This is, of course, the lifetime number (at an...
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Creative days and weekend agony
Name: Anne Cooke Age: 31 Job: Neuroscience research facilitator and communications manager, Bristol University. Education: BA natural sciences (neurophysiology) at Cambridge University and then a PhD...