Happily ever after? Advice for mid-career academics
Getting a permanent job is only the beginning, not a fairy-tale ending, says Helen De Cruz
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Universities spending millions helping academics buy homes
Housing crisis in Oxford, Cambridge and London means the cost of loan and joint equity schemes has tripled in past five years
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Prizewinners＊ labs ＆least likely to hire women＊
Women are greatly underrepresented in the laboratories of the highest-achieving male biology professors in the US, a study has revealed.
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Pint of Science festival launches across the UK
Next week will see scientists in 12 UK cities 每 and 8 other countries 每 presenting their research to audiences in pubs.
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You do not need to work 80 hours a week to succeed in academia
Meghan Duffy thinks you can get on in academia without being chained to your desk
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REF: static ranking raises questions about management policies
Performance targets to boost league table position are questioned as analysis shows little change in Russell Group REF order
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Universities confront ＆horrifying＊ figures on BME promotion
With the latest data showing that just 17 professors in the UK are black women, two explain how a new award will help more ethnic minority staff thrive
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News blog: what＊s the difference between Oxford and Cambridge?
John Morgan looks at the differences between Cambridge and Oxford on the ?9,000 tuition cap 每 and the idea of ＆going private＊
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Are older academics past their productive peak?
A recent paper claims that the quality of researchers declines with age. Five senior scientists consider the data and how they＊ve contributed through the years
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PhD students run professors close in Twitter popularity contest
Study finds that, while senior academics tend to have the most followers on social networking site, the most junior researchers are not far behind
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New and noteworthy 每 10 December 2015
From Lehman Brothers to La Leche League via disaster capitalism and 'the new retirement': new academic books worth adding to your reading list
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Chris Marshall, 1949-2015
A researcher who made a major contribution to our understanding of cancer 每 and paved the way for several new classes of drug 每 has died
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Make science courses more accessible to stop women dropping out, says author
Stereotypes, prejudice and laddish behaviour still deter young women interested in physics, engineering and computer science, says?Eileen Pollack