Max Planck is latest European institution to embrace hiring strategy that limits certain openings to female candidates.

The Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science show that it is crucial to support researchers in leading their groups well.

Rwanda is the global leader in terms of percentage of women in government, but the idea of women in positions of leadership is still seen as a taboo.

People with doctorates who go on to work in universities are less happy on average than those working elsewhere, a large-scale European survey has found.

The enthusiasm for science education rests on the assumption that these fields are flush with opportunity. Physicists, go digital.

COOPETIC-Recherche, a platform supporting scientists selling their research skills and knowledge to academic and industry clients.

Analysis of universities' salary data suggests major disparities in pay for early-career researchers.

Four Penn professors have signed a petition calling on the U.S. News & World Report to alter its rankings by docking points from schools that underpay adjunct faculty members.

Controversial policy means mainstream media are starting to rival rigorous academic publications in some universities in China.

Adjunct professors in America face low pay and long hours without the security of full-time faculty. Some, on the brink of homelessness, take desperate measures.

With the aim of maintaining the competitiveness of Swiss research, the SNSF is launching a new career funding scheme at assistant professor level.