Jobs for the new millennium:Ayala Ochert continues our series with a hard look at the prospects for a research career After a PhD, what could be more logical than the progression to postdoctoral...
A FIELD GUIDE FOR SCIENCE WRITERS. Edited by Deborah Blume and Mary Knudson. Oxford University Press, 287pp, Pounds 18.99. ISBN 0 19 510068 9 Most of us learn about science at second or third hand,...
BITS OF POWER: Issues in Global Access to Scientific Data. National Research Council (US), 235pp. Pounds 36.95 - 0 309 05635 7 The traditional paper-based way of communicating scientific research has...
THE government has admitted that delays in the House of Lords to the Teaching and Higher Education Bill could stop it being implemented in time for next academic year. The admission came in a letter...
DEBT is deterring graduates from taking PhDs. Heads of research councils say the situation will worsen as tuition fees and higher loans are introduced this autumn. They are meeting to discuss ways of...
OXFORD and Cambridge universities will keep the college fee next year because there is not enough time left to scrap it. The two universities have been told the fee will remain in 1998-99 for...
The Open University will have shed 200 staff and cut its student intake by 5,000 before the end of this year, according to accounts sent to the Higher Education Funding Council for England. In the...
Allegations of nepotism and bullying against Anglia Polytechnic business school head Hugh Jenkins have no foundation, the board of governors' audit and compliance committee has ruled. John Watts,...
More than 25 per cent of employers recruit exclusively from an elite group of top universities, a two-year study of employers' attitudes will reveal next week. The GET Report: Graduate Employment and...
The Academy of Medical Sciences was launched this week with 350 founder fellows nominated by its sponsors: the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Academy of the Medical Royal Colleges...
Reshmi Varma, the former director of St George's Hospital's fertility unit who claimed constructive dismissal against the school, has resolved her action amicably at an industrial tribunal. In a...
The Scottish Universities Research Policy Consortium, which includes 14 universities and colleges, has called for a watchdog to ensure that research assessment criteria are applied fairly when...
In the THES survey of vice-chancellors' pay (February 6) the amount of Pounds 83,000 shown under the entry for Queen Margaret College includes both Joan Stringer's remuneration from her appointment...
THESIS, The THES Internet Service, has a complete and fully searchable archive of The THES from October 1994 available to all subscribers to the newspaper, who can reach the archive with a specially...
AN ADMIRAL, a businesswoman and a local authority chief executive will be among members of the new Independent Review Committee deciding future approaches to lecturers' pay. Full membership of the...