The right mix of form and function

Article Abstract:

Germany's national genome research program will share the cost of mapping and sequencing projects of other countries already underway. But the new $130-million program will also investigate the functions of the genes already identified by other countries' research and sequencing efforts.

Social policy, Chromosome mapping

---

Less money, but much needed reform

Article Abstract:

The German budget for 1997 includes a 2.5% cut in funding for the science and education ministry, but the government is proposing reforms to improve nonacademic research. There will be more competition for research funds at universities and institutes.

Finance, Science and technology policy, Federal aid to research, Government aid to research, Germany. Ministry of Education and Science

---

Czech Republic: grad school bridges old divisions

Article Abstract:

Charles University in Prague is attempting to reform science education with a US-style graduate program called the Postgraduate School in Biomedicine. However, falling enrollments in graduate science continue to be a problem.

Universities and colleges, Czech Republic, Curricula, Schools, Education, Higher, Higher education, Sciences education, Science education, Medical education, Charles University

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Bee blight. Pink gold: the trials and tribulations of shrimp farming. Mystery of the missing dynamo: astronomers cannot explain the galaxy's magnetic field
• Abstracts: Ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention. An enhanced Perspective. Strengthening our global committment
• Abstracts: The perils of an irregular deregulation. Playing facts and loose. Rights of privacy; technology has its eyes on you
• Abstracts: Soil chemistry effects and flow prediction in electroremediation of soil. Determination of pentachlorophenol in water and soil by a magnetic particle-based enzyme immunoassay
• Abstracts: CERN sets sights on an early LHC. Politics meets technology in Next Collider. Broken belt sets back new accelerator

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.