All Universities articles – Page 32
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NewsScientists come together to fight EU budget cuts
Open letters from heads of research organisations and 44 Nobel laureates make the case for the economic importance of science
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NewsEnd of the road for h-index rankings
Criticism leads US group to stop collating ranked list of living chemists
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Russian universities face bleak future
Audit of state run institutes brands 25% as ‘inefficient’ and many may face closure
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Imperial launches second phenome centre
New centre aims to improve diagnoses and inform doctors of the best treatments
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Council to defend UK universities launched
The great and good launch campaign to call for increased university autonomy
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NewsRussia targets top spots in university league tables
Large cash injection planned to push 10–15 universities in to top 100 in global rankings by 2020
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Scientists petition Serbian government to tackle misconduct
Letter alleges plagiarism, cronyism and other bad practices are tolerated and widespread
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Funding worries in UK higher education
Think tank calculates that UK tuition fees reform might not save any money at all
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NewsEPSRC grant success rates rise
Approval rates rise to their highest level in a decade but hide a worrying fall in the number of applications
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Attempts to reform Croatian science stall
Controversy over changes to promotions and retirement age send the reforms back to the drawing board
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Health check finds Canadian science doing well
Independent report says country’s research base is healthy, despite growing friction between scientists and government
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£10 million open access boost
UK funding council’s stance on open access to be supported with an extra £10 million investment from government
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NewsNew law to increase autonomy of Ukrainian universities
Students protest draft legislation that they say will allow the commercialization of higher education in the country
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NewsBleak outlook for Greek chemistry
Greece’s financial troubles have already caused severe damage to academia and the chemical sciences
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NewsCalls to match skills to industry
Universities are not producing enough science graduates with the skills needed by UK industry, Lord’s report claims
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Research integrity may be linked to UK grants
Universities UK concordat on good research conduct suggests that signatories could make commitments part of grant conditions
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NewsShake-up for Russian universities and research
The new education minister is set to bring about big changes in the country’s higher education and research establishment
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US urged to invest in its research universities
America’s scientific advisers conclude that the nation’s well-being depends on greater funding for its research universities, but not everyone agrees
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Finch report backs open access for UK
Country should embrace open access but there are warnings that universities could spend as much as £60 million extra a year on author fees
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Russia mulls plan for overseas study scheme
Students that receive funding to study abroad will have to return and work in Russia