Dear Fred,
Sorry did not mean to send a personal post, it was meant to go to the 
list which it has now.  I think some discussion of career issues is not 
a bad thing for ccp4bb particularly as we allow job adverts.  The 
discussion was starting to be a bit negative about recruitment.

What you recount is a truly dreadful story.  Like the original posting I 
think one of the major problems was being made to pick up your own 
expenses.  Not something that I have come across in the UK. Perhaps a 
point that should be made on the list, except I think there is a desire 
to shut this line down.

Institutions should at least pay the costs of attendance; they have the 
balance of power. There are as I said people who come for interview with 
little intention of taking the job, but the faculty at least get a 
seminar for the travel costs.

Feel free to post this or a summary if you think it is helpful.
Best wishes
Nick



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Prof Nicholas H. Keep
Executive Dean of School of Science
Professor of Biomolecular Science
Crystallography, Institute for Structural and Molecular Biology,
Department of Biological Sciences
Birkbeck,  University of London,
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