White knight defence
The CDBU’s set-up is too narrow, too limiting: to fulfil its aims it must reach out and diversify, argues Alice Bell
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Leader: Clarity begins at home
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the UK's institutions and researchers must be fearless in shining a light on misconduct
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Making other plans
Universities benefit from the large pool of cheap labour provided by PhD students and postdocs, but there aren’t enough academic jobs to go around, so young scholars should prepare for the...
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News in brief
Digital humanitiesNo-holds BardA large-scale digital resource whose first tranche covers the writings of "Shakespeare and his immediate contemporaries, antecedents and successors" has been launched...
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Research Intelligence - The doctor will advise you now
PhDs and postdocs turn to social media to answer their pressing questions. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Access all areas: developing go-anywhere academics
Matthew Reisz reports on plans to help European academics think, speak and act transnationally
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All-terrain scholars pursue fluency in different cultures
Forum discusses efforts to increase mobility of Europe’s academics
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Work and other labours of love
Academics and others discuss a typical working week
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Worldwide acclaim for ground breaking local heroines
Matthew Reisz on the awards that highlight the developing world's leading young female scientists
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European University Institute’s renaissance thinking
Jack Grove on a European institution’s mission to foster cross-border scholarship
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Letters
Doctoral talking shops are the best we’ve gotThe feature “Whim and rigour” (25 April) does not provide an entirely thorough analysis. It asks if the viva is still fit for purpose, so it should have...
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I'd have to be mad to leave here, they said - and they were right
Surprise gave way to empathy when Terran Lane gave up a tenured post, full of anger and sorrow at the erosion of an institution he loved
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Hoffmann's Nobel input 'distant' from bench work
Researcher queries extent of professor's contribution to prizewinning immunity study. Paul Jump writes
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