Confessions of an errant tipster
Not for the first time, psephologists got the election result wrong. Ivor Crewe explains why he and his friends failed to predict a landslide The Conservative party was not the only casualty of the...
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Language, meaning and agency
Judith Butler is alarmed about the growing American tendency to ban offensive words. Kate Worsley talks to her. Imagine you are taking a domestic flight across the United States. The seatbelt signs...
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Reduced to tiers
If science is about reductionism, how come we are drowning in a sea of data? asks Sara Abdulla It is the marvel of the universe that, with a limited number of elementary particles, we have ended up...
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How to get ahead with a PhD
Postgraduates do not to realise how employable they are. Pat Cryer explains how to get a well-paid job
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The mistress of all she surveys
Susan McRae, director of the Population and Household Change Programme, talks to Alison Utley about directing Britain's key social research which will inform policy Susan McRae displays a thoroughly...
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Bunny girls, clones and a comet
The media loves science and scientists increasingly need the media. It is a symbiotic and sometimes fraught relationship. Julia Hinde reports Science, it appears, is suddenly sexy. Where it may have...
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The boom with no yardstick
Postgraduate study needs a framework to deliver quality and standards, argues Robert Burgess A revolution has occurred in higher education in the past ten years as more students choose to engage in...
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A professional in the dock
Is the taught doctorate a 'dumbing down' of higher education or a model idea? Emma Westcott reports The professional or taught doctorate is a little-known qualification which was first introduced in...
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High noon in the lecture hall
Young tutors should be trained to cope with students behaving badly, argue Adrienne Cutner and Isis Brook More and more postgraduates are teaching and there seems to be little doubt that they are...
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Two single females and a slimy supervisor
What happens when a doctoral student finds the intellectual attentions of their supervisor turning into sexual harassment? Deborah Lee reports A good work relationship between PhD student and...
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Is she a news reader or a new Darwinist?
Ambitious young academics should cast off their cords and jeans and get smart if they want to climb the career ladder. Joanne Entwistle reports Last week 55 former academics took their seats in the...
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The insidious erosion of ethics
Cheating is a growing temptation that must be resisted by researchers, argues Dom Wilson Ask a research student about ethics in research and they usually have little difficulty in running off a...
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High fees, no reward
A survey by Eunice Okorocha reveals that foreign students fear British universities are more interested in their money than their education International postgraduate students have expressed concerns...
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Digital Darwin: not apeing books
EVOLUTION. By Mark Ridley. Blackwell Science +44 1865 206179 Pounds 29.50 inc VAT. - ISBN 0 86542 757 7. Macintosh/Windows CD The most revolutionary book of the 19th century was not Don Juan or even...
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NC education first
The Apple-Acorn joint venture Xemplar expects to be first to equip a school with network computers. The Internet-friendly alternatives to PCs will go to Hinchingbrooke school in Cambridgeshire.