The Scientist has published its Top Places to Work and Drug Monkey has pointed out that Universities don't feature well in the list. Instead its the private and public research institutes that feature highly in the rankings.

Given the lack of such institutes in Ireland I wonder how well the Universities here rank in terms of how good a place they are to work. Note that the survey is strictly about research capacity, rather it also ranks childcare availability and such things as part of measures to access work/life balance for researchers in these institutes. How would Irish and European Institutes and Universities fare in the same test? I reckon it would probably be a very mixed bag.