Get ready for the real world
Anne White reflects on the success of a graduate training programme in biological sciences Gone are the days when a PhD or MSc in biological sciences was a leisurely process planning experiments...
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Let's put this pension plan out to grass
LATER this year the government intends to issue a green paper on stakeholder pensions. Earlier this year the Association of University Teachers drew attention to the level of stress among university...
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Working for the Yankee dollar
In the third of a series on academic opportunities around the world, philosopher Simon Blackburn and physicist Michael Duff explain why they quit British universities to try their luck in the land of...
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Careers: In the City
Pack up your PhD and head for the City where the computer screens are painted in pound signs for the ambitious researcher, says Natasha Loder GETTING a PhD is not the obvious route towards making a...
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When jobs are only heaven sent
What does it take for a scientist to earn a decent living? It took the discovery of a comet to give Alan Hale financial security and the chance to champion the cause of the planet's jobless...
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Careers close to critical mass
Ayala Ochert examines disturbing evidence that shows that only a minority of scientists can look forward to a lifelong career in their chosen field What does a scientist's career have in common with...
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Don's Diary
Monday The most recent contribution of the Natural History Museum to helping the public understand science is a Fossil Roadshow to be broadcast on Friday and Saturday. This is supposed to be a kind...
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French show an appetite for matters of taste
Scientists carrying out research into what goes on behind our taste buds will soon have their very own "European Centre for Taste and Ingestion", in France's gastronomic heartland of Burgundy. The...
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A bit of trench warfare
Time Team star Mick Aston is happy to help the public bone up on archaeology but he dug his heels in over submitting his work to the research assessment exercise. Harriet Swain reports It is about...
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Study your opportunities, they may not be to your liking
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...
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High fliers may roost elsewhere
If Britain is to have a future as one of the world's leading research nations something has to be done about financial support for postgraduates and, in particular, PhD students. The PhD is the...
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Sources for research funding
INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER (IARC) www.iarc.fr Postdoctoral Fellowships The IARC is offering five postdoctoral fellowships to junior scientists with experience in a research area...
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Leaving the lab
Scientists are breaking out of the laboratory. Chris Condron talks to two escapees "There is little question that the prospects look good for science graduates, and have done for the past few years...
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$25 million way to go
Kristi Coale examines the landmark deal between Swiss biotech giant Novartis and the University of California, Berkeley that frees researchers from the need to pursue funding and gives the company...
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Blackstone goes for fees
Baroness Blackstone told a conference in London this week that Labour party plans to boost funding by recovering student maintenance costs would not sustain a high-quality system. But Labour is...