The responsibility of co-authors of collaborative academic papers has emerged as a key issue in the wake of the Bell Labs research fraud scandal, writes Steve Farrar. The independent investigative...
Natasha Loder asserts that we have something to learn from the United States ("Just what the postdocs ordered", THES, February 25). Despite scandalous levels of casualisation in United Kingdom...
J. Doyne Farmer disputes the integrity of a fellow academic's bestseller. Although Steven Wolfram's recent book, A New Kind of Science , has received an unusual level of attention in the popular...
Who Wants to Be a Scientist?
Phil Baty reports from the AUT's annual conference in Scarborough A football-style transfer market of "superstar" academics is damaging university research by creating a lower league of underpaid and...
Some British universities are recruiting sub-standard researchers because of a shortage of high-calibre candidates. In a survey of deans of science, carried out by the pressure group Save British...
Stephen Winter , head of the 3a-rated computer science department at Westminster University, was hoping to see money made available for improving departments. He said: "Our department has steadily...
Arts and humanities courses lag behind other disciplines in the provision of work experience. This may make it more difficult for these students to find suitable employment. Most employers are not...
The electronic scroll display behind the reception desk at the Sanger Institute near Cambridge still flashes up 60 million DNA bases a day. But with the map of the human genome all but complete, the...
France's intellectuals have gone to war against the government. Jennifer Wallace reports. If you ask any wistful romantic about his image of the French intellectual, he will probably paint you a...
France's intellectuals have gone to war against the government. Jennifer Wallace reports. If you ask any wistful romantic about his image of the French intellectual, he will probably paint you a...
Stupid Cupid! Steve Farrar relates the pain of academic couples whose love must be a long-distance one The journey from Wales to Sheffield takes some four hours by train. It is not an especially...
Stupid Cupid! Steve Farrar relates the pain of academic couples whose love must be a long-distance one The journey from Wales to Sheffield takes some four hours by train. It is not an especially...
THES reporters examine appointment systems worldwide: Legislation is radically changing the way Spanish universities select their staff. Under a law that came into force on January 14, would-be...
Sunday Spent the weekend working on EU proposals. Has it been worthwhile? With only a 10-15 per cent chance of success, should we have invested three weeks of our time in an 80-page proposal? Yes....