Plan to rank universities fails to impress

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Britain is persuading their universities to become more focused on application however, the critics claim that the country risks undermining fundamental research in order to subsidize industry-funded projects. The roughly five-yearly process in which peer review is used to assess and reward individual university departments is widely acknowledged to have boosted the quality of British but the preparation and processing of submissions is found to be very time-consuming.

Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Colleges and universities, Universities and colleges, Rankings, Education policy

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UK panel urges animal researchers to go public

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A tiny fraction of Britain's thousand of biomedical scientists are willing to participate in discussions on animal research as UK scientist are physically attacked or sent to their homes. For this purpose Nuffield Council, the London-based think tank has removed solution such as allowing researchers get involved in debates on the subject, and allow government publish more details about the procedures used in animal experiment.

Legal issues & crime, Product standards, safety, & recalls, Government regulation (cont), Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Government regulation, Research and Testing Services, Medical Research, Epilepsy & Muscle Disease R&D, Legal/Government Regulation, Administration of Public Health Programs, Scientists, Ethics, Health Research Programs, Standards, Laws, regulations and rules, Ethical aspects, Animal experimentation, Medicine, Experimental

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Damned if they do, damned if they don't...

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This article addresses the dilema of the British government whether or not embrace transgenic crops and begin commercial cultivation of genetically modified crops. On one side it wants to safeguard nation's economic competitiveness amidst other countries which are adopting it but on the other side the fear of defying the British public opinion.

International aspects, Political aspects, Agricultural policy, Public opinion, Agricultural economics, Genetically modified crops, United Kingdom. Agricultural Development and Advisory Service

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