All Universities articles – Page 35

News
Funding boost for PhDs

2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

EPSRC to invest £84.2 million in postgraduate training through doctoral training grants
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University cleared, student recovering after poisoning

2013-03-13T00:00:00Z

Seemingly deliberate thallium and arsenic exposure leaves Southampton PhD chemist fighting nerve damage
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Data challenges for UK chemists

2013-03-06T00:00:00Z

Academic chemists are being overwhelmed by the amount of information they both produce and feel they ought to be reading, a report claims
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UK funders get tough on research misconduct

2013-03-04T00:00:00Z

Research Councils UK will be able to withhold money from universities that fail to take ethical breaches seriously
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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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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
News
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
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
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
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
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