All Universities articles – Page 35

News
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
News
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
News
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
News
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
News
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
News
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
News
FOI exemptions for unpublished research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UK government agrees to amend the Freedom of Information Act so that universities are not compelled to release unpublished data
News
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
News
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
News
Russian universities face bleak future

2012-11-21T00:00:00Z

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

2012-11-15T00:00:00Z

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

2012-11-09T00:00:00Z

The great and good launch campaign to call for increased university autonomy
News
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
News
Scientists petition Serbian government to tackle misconduct

2012-11-05T00:00:00Z

Letter alleges plagiarism, cronyism and other bad practices are tolerated and widespread
News
Funding worries in UK higher education

2012-10-26T00:00:00Z

Think tank calculates that UK tuition fees reform might not save any money at all
News
EPSRC grant success rates rise

2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Approval rates rise to their highest level in a decade but hide a worrying fall in the number of applications
News
Attempts to reform Croatian science stall

2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Controversy over changes to promotions and retirement age send the reforms back to the drawing board