Academics put job offers on ice over Brexit vote
Fears that Britain will leave the EU are deterring academics from taking up posts at UK universities, says Universities UK president Dame Julia Goodfellow

Fears that Britain will leave the EU are deterring academics from taking up posts at UK universities, says Universities UK president Dame Julia Goodfellow

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Kirsty Rolfe says the portability proposal does nothing to ease the fears and worries of young researchers struggling to start careers
The Spanish government is to improve conditions for young researchers - but not nearly enough, says the country's Young Researchers' Federation (FJI). From January 2004, PhD students and...

Johannes Haushofer lists failures in attempt to 'balance the record' on how he climbed the greasy pole of academia
Postdoctoral researchers in the social sciences and humanities are twice as likely to secure permanent posts in their universities than those in the biological and physical sciences, official figures...

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Former postdoctoral researchers will now be counted as alumni at the University of Cambridge
I am quite shocked that the number of “ghost†authors is so high and that there are therefore a significant number of academics who are cutting out graduate students and postdocs from receiving...

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University of Illinois research finds ‘brilliant’ or ‘genius’ more often used to describe male academics