All Universities articles – Page 33

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UK-India projects launched

2013-02-20T00:00:00Z

Scholarships and research links announced as part of prime minister’s visit to India
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Head of Russian degree-awarding regulator arrested

2013-02-15T00:00:00Z

Felix Shamkhalov is charged with money laundering and issuing false dissertations. Thousands of Russian academic degrees may need to be revised
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Duplicate grants could be costing US science agencies millions

2013-02-01T00:00:00Z

Analysis claims that since 1985 major science agencies may have spent $5.1 billion on research that had already received funding
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Citation cartel uncovered in Bosnian journals

2013-01-31T00:00:00Z

Study claims some scientists are behaving unethically to inflate impact factors and boost their careers
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Funding council backs doctoral training centres with £350m

2013-01-31T00:00:00Z

Money will fund new centres and some existing ones, while others may slowly fade away
Opinion
Using used lab equipment

2013-01-29T00:00:00Z

Philip Ball evaluates the market in second-hand labware
Feature
Life at the top

2013-01-10T00:00:00Z

Does an academic chemistry career help or hinder when you move up the ladder? Nina Notman gives us an insight into the role of university leaders
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New European universities ranking initiative

2012-12-21T00:00:00Z

U-Multirank is intended to be more fair by taking into account a greater number of performance factors
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Top academics targeted in scheme to boost poorer European regions

2012-12-21T00:00:00Z

The European commission’s pilot will provide funding of up to €2.4 million per post to attract the best researchers
Feature
Building better chemistry

2012-12-20T00:00:00Z

Do lab buildings affect the work of the scientists inside them? James Mitchell Crow surveys some grand designs
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Home office to help student job seekers

2012-12-19T00:00:00Z

Foreign PhD students will get a 12 month grace period to find a job after end of course
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RSC to launch new Chemical Database Service

2012-12-17T00:00:00Z

Society says that the main databases will be accessible in January after protracted negotiations on the future of the service
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US urged to rethink chemistry graduate education

2012-12-14T00:00:00Z

American Chemical Society report highlights systemic problems like a possible glut of chemistry PhDs and a need to bolster academic lab safety
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FOI exemptions for unpublished research

2012-12-06T00:00:00Z

UK government agrees to amend the Freedom of Information Act so that universities are not compelled to release unpublished data
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Scientists come together to fight EU budget cuts

2012-11-28T00:00:00Z

Open letters from heads of research organisations and 44 Nobel laureates make the case for the economic importance of science
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End of the road for h-index rankings

2012-11-27T00:00:00Z

Criticism leads US group to stop collating ranked list of living chemists
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Russian universities face bleak future

2012-11-21T00:00:00Z

Audit of state run institutes brands 25% as ‘inefficient’ and many may face closure
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Imperial launches second phenome centre

2012-11-15T00:00:00Z

New centre aims to improve diagnoses and inform doctors of the best treatments
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Council to defend UK universities launched

2012-11-09T00:00:00Z

The great and good launch campaign to call for increased university autonomy
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Russia targets top spots in university league tables

2012-11-06T00:00:00Z

Large cash injection planned to push 10–15 universities in to top 100 in global rankings by 2020