Postdoctoral Fellowships
Deadline: 01/11/2005
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Arts postdocs lead the pack in job stakes
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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Have you been touched by the Monster's noodly appendage yet?
A physics graduate has opened a new front in the battle between Darwinists and Creationists and is fast attracting academic disciples in the UK and US with his new theory of existence, writes Michael...
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'Events have to be tailor-made: young trendies are not 85-year-old alumni'
Unconventional fundraisers have led to a leadership award for Eric Thomas, Bristol's vice-chancellor Benefactors move to the beat while alumni swap memories of university days over vodka and Red Bull...
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On the move ...
* James Crabbe , head of the School of Animal and Microbial Sciences at Reading University, has been appointed dean of creative arts, technologies and science at Luton University. * Richard Williams...
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Lincoln begs for books
Books are so thin on the ground at Lincoln University's library that academics have been asked to donate material from their personal collections, writes Phil Baty. In a letter to all staff last...
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Sex bias 'is built into research'
Male-dominated funding bodies remain an obstacle for many female academics Women will continue to suffer gross inequality in Europe's universities until the sector eradicates major bias in the way...
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Gender study 'rigorous' but 'flawed' in method
Research claiming that men are more likely to win Nobel prizes and other high academic distinctions because they are more intelligent than women, revealed exclusively last week in The Times Higher ,...
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Protests lead to survey omission
The credibility of a survey of 170,000 final-year students has been called into question as it emerged that Oxford, Cambridge and Warwick universities would be omitted from the results. The National...
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Next week
The parent trap The overprotective mums and dads putting students at risk of violence Plus RAE criteria - the responses
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Muslim students speak
Two out of three Muslim students in Britain believe the UK's foreign policy and the Iraq War played a major role in prompting the London bombings on July 7, according to a survey. The Federation of...
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Chimp genome mapped
Academics have passed a scientific milestone by piecing together the genetic blueprint of the chimpanzee, the journal Nature reported this week. The new analysis promises greater insight into human...
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NUS vow to halt fee hike
A campaign to prevent tuition fees being raised at the end of the decade will be the keynote of the National Union of Students' latest manifesto. The manifesto, published this week ahead of the three...
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Stars' baby pictures
Pictures showing the birth of stars more than 1,000 light years away from Earth were unveiled this week by a project backed by British universities. The colour images are the first taken by the...
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Calls to counter UK drain on Africa
Britain's universities are poaching academic talent from developing nations at such an alarming rate that the UK must consider recruitment restrictions and compensation packages to counter the damage...