Graduates in limbo
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The UK government should desist from defining a specific framework for the education of graduate students in the sciences. A policy paper prepared by Science and Technology Minister William Waldegrave proposed that graduate research degrees should provide students with adequate knowledge in research sciences as well as management and industrial economics, all within the first year. This proposal would equip graduate students with capabilities for industrial as well as academic employment. However, this may give rise to a shortage of academicians.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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What is public understanding for?
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Britain's second annual 'science week' provokes questions about the aims of the public understanding of science and about the defects of the educational system. Without an understanding of what the broadening and deepening of the public understanding of science is intended for, techniques used may be counter-productive. Public understanding will not by itself generate the need for basic research in science. The practical purpose of public understanding is to give young people an enthusiasm science.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1995
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Britain's new machinery for research
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The British Cabinet Minister of Science and Technology, William Waldergrave, has proposed a new policy for supporting scientific research. The policy includes spending more money on civil science, but its benefit is yet to be decided. Researchers might feel that too much is expected of them, and that the government will want to know where their extra money will come from.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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