On the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Caroline Baillie Age: Definitely five, sometimes 100. Job: Deputy director of the UK Centre for Materials Education...
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RAE 2008: A nod to new blood and a warning to gameplayers
With the rules for the 2008 RAE in place, Anthea Lipsett and Tony Tysome assess the key changes and their impact on departments and individuals The final ground rules that will be used to judge...
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Finding a job in the US
If you are a postdoc scientist looking to enhance your career prospects, the United States could be a good place to start. Although the United States is one of the easier foreign countries for...
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Why I believe that all UK research output should be online
Stevan Harnad Professor of cognitive science Department of electronics and computer science Southampton University. Unlike journalists or book authors, researchers receive no royalties or fees for...
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Wise words to Klingon to
Some Time with Feynman
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Wise words to Klingon to
Some Time with Feynman
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Analysis: Co-authors should play greater role in ensuring validity of research
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...
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Time bomb with a longer fuse
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...
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Scientific credit where it's due
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...
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Route map for aspiring lieutenants
Who Wants to Be a Scientist?
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Lab crisis as poor pay hits staff quality
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...
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Union puts boot into 'celebrity' culture
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...
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PhD jobs crisis
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...
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What £1.25bn really means to scientists
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...
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Sanger maps out profitable vocation
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...