Training

Nicholas Gruen on the benefits of on-line lectures

"It always struck me how inefficient universities were with most efforts going into lectures which were inherently a broadcast medium – so much so you could go and get the tapes of the lectures. Meanwhile, tutes were usually a bit of an afterthought and a place where grad students might pick up some pennies for taking a tute. That seemed to be playing to the institution’s weaknesses rather than its strength."

It costs more to lose women in science than keep them

Anna-Maria Arabia: "An industry that loses its highly skilled workers when they take time out of the workforce is doomed to fail. Yet a successful scientific career relies on continuous research output – this practice is both unsustainable and unrealistic. It's time we stopped trying to change women to fit the system, and changed the system to fit biological differences."

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