All Academia articles – Page 72
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Home office to help student job seekers
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
Society says that the main databases will be accessible in January after protracted negotiations on the future of the service
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RSC acquires rights to Merck Index
The society plans to expand the online presence of ‘chemistry’s constant companion’
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US urged to rethink chemistry graduate education
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FOI exemptions for unpublished research
UK government agrees to amend the Freedom of Information Act so that universities are not compelled to release unpublished data
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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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NewsBritish Antarctic Survey merger binned
Cost saving plans are scrapped after outcry by politicians and scientists
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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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US chemical society loses legal battle
Ohio Supreme Court rules that the American Chemical Society owes software firm Leadscope millions for suing with malicious intent