From brain drain to bright future
Cambridge leads the field in producing Nobel science laureates, but many of the UK's best scientists have left to pursue work in the US. Matthew Reisz finds out from past winners what tempted them to...
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Rankings rankle 2
Your article "Hardbacks and hard drives win some hard cash" (May 21) ignores one of your tables in which Cambridge University and most other Russell Group institutions are consistently bottom - the...
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Even a social animal had to learn to use the schmooze
Wary of parties? Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers advice on avoiding faux pas, while Anna Fazackerley discovers the secrets of a supreme networker When scientist Nancy Lane graduated from Oxford...
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Revolution is in the air
Reform is widely felt to be overdue for French higher education, but its proponents face an entrenched and powerful universities system. Matthew Reisz assesses the appetite for change
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Today's news
Jobs cull is gathering pace Hundreds of academic jobs are being culled across Britain as smaller and middle-ranking universities restructure subject provision to compete for research cash. ...
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Summer time and the living is easy...
... but not if you're an academic, says Anna Fazackerley, who finds quite a few on a busman's holiday, hunched over a PC or working hard in the lab. For James Tooley, professor of education at...
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After the gold rush
Ireland's economic boom brought equally impressive growth in higher education enrolment. But in a chillier fiscal climate, what awaits the Celtic Tiger's universities? Hannah Fearn reports
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Fred Taylor: A glimpse of my own future, and a girl to boot
A FOR ANDROMEDA Friday, 10pm, BBC Four In 1961, when I was just out of short trousers and preparing to take my science O levels, the BBC first brought A for Andromeda to our TV screens. I knew I...
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Europe and Asia set to oust US from lead in science and engineering
Brussels, 13 Jul 2005 Fifty years of US global dominance in science and engineering (S&E) may be coming to an end as America's share of graduates in these fields stagnates, while S&E...
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Inside track...
Our occasional column keeps you abreast of developments in the jobs market, from tip-offs and career pointers to who's on the move in your field Chemical attraction A £17 million investment in new...
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Doofaas and Boojums
After learning that the project to put postdocs into schools has been dubbed Inspire, after INovative Scheme for Postdocs In Research and Education (back page), the Diary was delighted to discover a...
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Treasure allows hunt into past of the blast
"It was the novelty of the project. I had an idea that there was now enough archive material from the Hubble Space Telescope and other large telescopes to spot these stars before they had exploded,"...
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Steamed up for day at the coalface
Name: Alex Haslam Age: 42 Job: Professor of social and organisational psychology What is your background? I studied psychology at St Andrews University, spent a year at Emory University, Atlanta, US...
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Cancer experts look to China for talent
Leading UK cancer experts flew to China this week to recruit young research stars and make inroads into an academic sector that many UK scientists find bewildering. Scientists from the charity Cancer...
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Just basic research: A fundamental building block in molecular electronics begins to look like a product at the Niels Bohr Institute - from "talking" electrons to test tube transistors
Brussels, 19 Jul 2006 Thanks to a quantum physics breakthrough, European and American physicists are, electron-by-electron, pushing back the resistance barriers stifling current generation computers...