science Articles

Last week, the Times Education Supplement ran a story with the headline ‘Gender equality in science would “deny human nature”'. Reporting on a recent education conference, the article cited Gijsbert Stoet, a (male) psychologist at the University of Glasgow who has...

Labour recently launched its science green paper, with a speech by Liam Byrne, shadow minister for universities and science, and associated articles for the Huffington Post and the LabourList blog. It sets out the Labour view of the state of science in the United...

The gender pay gap in Britain is proving hard to eradicate. Over 40 years after the Equal Pay Act came into force Britain has one of the highest gender pay gaps in the European Union. In 2012 women earned on average less than 18.6 per cent less per hour than men with...

Andrew Adonis recently renewed his call for a Whitehall apprenticeship scheme. Prospect, the union representing 34,000 professionals and specialists across the civil service, strongly agrees that the government needs to do more to demonstrate its role as a good...