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Chemistry World
November 1, 2012
Patrick McGhee |
Losing concentration In the UK, successive governments have held to the mantra that funding for university research should be heavily concentrated in a handful of universities.   |
Chemistry World
October 26, 2012
Laura Howes |
Funding worries in UK higher education A recent report from the Higher Education Policy Institute suggests that the government's 'cost cutting' undergraduate funding reforms may in fact cost more than the scheme it replaced. |
Chemistry World
October 23, 2012
Leila Sattary |
EPSRC grant success rates rise The UK's largest physical sciences funding agency has experienced a significant decrease in the number of applications submitted in 2011 -- 12, which has led to the highest grant success rates in the last decade. |
Chemistry World
October 12, 2012
Laura Howes |
Government adds 200 million to research partnership fund At the Conservative party conference earlier this week, UK chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne pledged 200 million of new money to the Research Partnership Investment Fund which supports university capital projects. |
Chemistry World
September 25, 2012
Laura Howes |
Liberal Democrats pledge support for UK science The Liberal Democrat party voted to support a 15 year strategy to support science and research in the UK. The policy paper passed without opposition and was proposed by Julian Huppert MP, who left a research career to become a politician in 2010. |
Chemistry World
September 18, 2012
Andy Extance |
UK university lab shut after student poisoning Police say that they are 'investigating all scenarios' after a University of Southampton PhD student was taken to hospital with highly toxic thallium and arsenic species in their body. Thallium salts have long been used in malicious poisonings thanks to their flavourless, colorless nature. |
Chemistry World
September 18, 2012
Laura Howes |
Battery boost for electric cars The UK government, in collaboration with industry, is to create a new UK energy storage R&D center to accelerate the development of batteries for vehicles. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2012
Stevan Harnad |
United Kingdom's Open Access Policy Urgently Needs a Tweak The UK government, under the joint influence of the publisher lobby and short-sighted advice from Open Access (OA) advocates, has decided to make all UK research output OA within two years by diverting funds from UK research. |
Chemistry World
September 7, 2012
Laura Howes |
10 million open access boost UK Minister of State for Universities and Science, David Willetts, has today announced an additional investment of 10 million to help universities take up open access options. |
Chemistry World
September 7, 2012 |
Food with a function Compounds normally thought of as medicines are being added to food. Elinor Hughes looks at the scientific and regulatory challenges facing these nutraceuticals. |
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