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Willetts proposes dual support system for Vitae
31-05-2012
The future of the researcher career development body Vitae has been guaranteed following an agreement to provide joint funding by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Research Councils UK.
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ESRC and NIHR offer £13m for dementia studies
31-05-2012
Grants worth a total of £13 million are to be offered to social scientists looking at methods of alleviating problems caused by the rising number of elderly people with dementia.
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After the storm
30-05-2012
Imperial College chemist Tony Barrett went to ground after a much-publicised stunt in which he vented his anger at the EPSRC by sending a coffin to Downing Street to illustrate the “death of British science”. Following much debate—and criticism—on Twitter and the blogosphere, Miriam Frankel found him in fighting form.
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Leave those kids alone
30-05-2012
If there is one topic that our venerable learned societies can’t seem to let lie, it is the way mathematics is taught in our schools. At the beginning of May, the Score partnership of learned societies and other organisations concerned with science education policy released a report concluding that the maths content of A-level biology, chemistry and physics courses provides poor preparation for students intending to take science and engineering degrees.
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Australian research centres funding to fall
29-05-2012
Australian government spending on cooperative research centres (CRC) is set to drop from $166 million this year to about AU$155m in 2012–13 and fall again to $146m in 2013, before receiving an $11m boost in 2014.
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In this week's issue of Research Fortnight, we mistakenly attributed a quote to Crossbench peer Ajay Kakkar. The quote was in fact from Labour peer Lewis Moonie. We apologise for this mistake.
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Horizon 2020 and the future of European research
Thursday, 21st June 2012
International Auditorium, BrusselsAfter years of anticipation, the Commission’s proposal for Horizon 2020, the follow-up to Framework 7, is finally out. This document will define the direction, scope and financing of research in Europe for the next decade. Read more
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