Spring in Paris, and revolution's in the air again
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...
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Spring in Paris, and revolution's in the air again
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...
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Please don go breaking my heart
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...
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Please don go breaking my heart
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...
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Insular Spanish academy threatened by reforms
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...
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Don's Diary
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....
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The not so odd couple
Poor career guidance and isolation are issues for many women working in science, technology and engineering. Mixed-sex mentoring may be a solution, as Sharon Ann Holgate finds out. "It was a...
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The myth of Giddens' Porsche
Michael North reports on the opportunities for academic writers to reach a popular readership and asks established authors for their top tips. The philosopher A. C. Grayling recalls that in the 1980s...
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The myth of Giddens' Porsche
Michael North reports on the opportunities for academic writers to reach a popular readership and asks established authors for their top tips. The philosopher A. C. Grayling recalls that in the 1980s...
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Get a life? Not with our hours
New guidelines on work-life balance have met with scepticism. Phil Baty reports. Richard White does not have much of a personal life. He is a -year old postdoctoral student at Imperial College London...
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Cooperate to contend
Research collaboration in Europe could be the way to compete with the US, says Ian Halliday. It seems appropriate in the week after the research assessment exercise results to turn from a domestic...
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Oxbridge brains reunion at MSR
Tony Durham meets the men directing Microsoft's innovative research programme in Cambridge The retired head of the Cambridge University computer laboratory holds forth as he paces the room, while the...
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'We've gone beyond bottom pinching... but this is worse'
Institutionalised sexism discourages many women from a career in science. What's being done about it? asks Helen Hague. Baroness Greenfield broke the pre-publication purdah surrounding her keenly...
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Tenure challenged by private university
Four years after publishing a book that stoked debate on Canadian universities, Peter Emberley has further fanned the flames by accepting a private university job, where he is speaking out against...
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Cutting edge: David Caplin
The discovery of a new superconductor leads to sleepless nights in Seattle and a surfing frenzy in Los Alamos. Superconductivity is one of nature's more exotic phenomena - perpetual motion in action...