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Showing posts with label BIS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BIS. Show all posts
Wednesday, 17 February 2016

The Right Trousers

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The most important job in higher education has been entrusted to a 20 cm tall Plasticine character with only a passing acquaintance with rea...
Thursday, 13 March 2014

ESRC Seeks New CEO

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The ESRC has started the process of recruiting its new Chief Executive. As is more and more the case, it has put its trust in the hands of...
Tuesday, 9 April 2013

Bear Sh*ts in Woods Shock!

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Pope: Catholic, apparently. Well, you may have noticed that things have been somewhat quiet over at Fundermentals Towers. Yes, I've ...
Friday, 9 November 2012

The 94 Seven Join and Leave another Mission Group

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'Please sir, we're looking for a mission group to join. And leave' The Council for the Defence of British Universities was ...
Thursday, 8 December 2011

Catapults Are Go!

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The new Innovation and Research Strategy was published today by the Dept for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) . This sets out what the...
Monday, 23 May 2011

UK's 'Dr Doolittle' Stance on FP8

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BIS has published the UK's official response to the EC's consultation on the future of the Framework Programme. The 'Common ...
Wednesday, 24 November 2010

About Turn on Adrian Smith Job

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After all the speculation and concern over Adrian Smith's job cut at BIS , it's been announced this week that he is going to be appo...
Wednesday, 17 November 2010

Night of the Long Knife

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Research Fortnight has reported that Adrian Smith , Director General of Science and Research at the Department for Business, Innovation an...
Wednesday, 10 November 2010

BIS Publishes Milestones for Reform

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The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has set out its plans implementing changes to higher education. It intends to ...
Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Your Chance to Have Your Say on FP8

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The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is consulting the sector on what shape, and what focus, FP8 should have. In his introdc...
Friday, 10 September 2010

Strong Reaction from the Sector to the Cable Gaffe

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There's been a strong reaction to Vince Cable's gaffe on the Today programme on Wednesday, when he suggested that 'something li...
Wednesday, 8 September 2010

Cable Softens the Sector for Cuts

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In an unsurprising move, Vince Cable has been softening up the sector today for cuts to the Science budget in the forthcoming spending revie...
Thursday, 17 June 2010

'Newton Scholarships' amongst the First Victims of the Cuts

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The Treasury has issued a statement detailing a number of projects that will face the axe under the new austerity regime. From a funding pe...
Wednesday, 17 March 2010

The End of Dual Support?

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The Dept of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is canvassing six bodies on how it should spend the science budget when the current Comp...
Tuesday, 2 February 2010

FP8: Under Starter's Orders...

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The formal process to develop the next Framework Programme (FP8) is expected to start in early 2011, reports UKRO . Prior to this the Depar...
Monday, 30 November 2009

FP8 Begins to Take Shape

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In the same way that Christmas seems to come round quicker and quicker each year, Framework Programmes seem to be speeding up. Barely have ...
Thursday, 5 November 2009

Mandelson: the Future is in 'Concentrating Research Funding'

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Business secretary Peter Mandelson has launched a new framework for Higher Education. Entitled 'Higher Ambitions,' the report focu...
Wednesday, 30 September 2009

'We Do the R Better than the D' - Mandelson

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Peter Mandelson has used his speech at the Labour Conference to outline his vision of the future of university research and development. ...
Thursday, 24 September 2009

Dual Support System Under Threat?

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The Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has announced a review of HE funding to cut back on overlaps. There's no more detail yet, but th...