Now that's research impact: 'paradigm-shifting' Browne drew on a single opinion survey. The review that sparked the government's transformation of higher education in England spent the "astonishingly low" sum of £68,000 on research - with nearly all of that going on an unpublished opinion survey of students and parents. Critics of the Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance, led by former BP chief executive Lord Browne of Madingley, said the research commissioned was inadequate for a study with such wide-ranging implications for higher education. Figures obtained by Times Higher Education under the Freedom of Information Act show that the Browne Review spent £68,375 on research, from a total spend of £120,000.
Recommendations made by the review and accepted by the government include ending the undergraduate teaching grant for arts, humanities and social science subjects. A "smaller amount" was spent on "basic data" from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, the spokesman added. john.morgan@tsleducation.com. One-room schoolhouse + fanatical teacher + committed students = freedom from a life of poverty. A few weeks ago Dharampal Yadav received momentous news, the kind of news that, in an instant, fundamentally and irrevocably alters a person's life. He rushed home to this village in the rural Bihar state to tell his family, and they celebrated with him - even though none of them really had a sweet clue what he was talking about.
Mr. Yadav had passed the entrance exam to the Indian Institute of Technology. He was in. The IITs are 16 separate engineering colleges spread across India which, taken together, are perhaps the most elite educational institutions in the world. But no one in Rashulpur, a village of cowherds and feudal farm labour, has ever gone to college. "I didn't know what it meant, but when I found out, I felt like my dream had been achieved," his mother, Radhika said, surveying her shy and lanky son with bemused pride.
Mr. Each year 30 students, as impoverished as they are promising, are recruited by a rumpled, near-fanatical math teacher named Anand Kumar. But Mr. Mr. Mr. In which we stand on the shoulders of midgets - Mind the Gap Blog | Nature Publishing Group. Less than two weeks remain until my big fellowship application is due – the one I’m banking on to rescue me from the dwindling life of my latest short-term contract. If I get the fellowship, my position should finally be secure. If not, I’ll need to scrabble together another fellowship or short-term contract, or try to find a different position altogether. All of this is happening in the context of the mind-blowingly large number of pounds I have just set up as a monthly standing order to Joshua’s new nursery starting in February, and the stark fact that after childcare fees, the mortgage and the other household bills, there are only a few pence left to rub together for anything else.
An interruption in salary, no matter how short, is simply not an option. No pressure, then. I’ve been thinking a lot, first, about how much work I’ve been able to get done on maternity leave and second, whether in fact that’s actually been a good thing. Grant vs grant Does this make me a bad mother? Unravelling Cable « In the Dark. I woke up this morning with the Vince Cable Blues, owing to an item on the BBC News concerning a speech by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills that clearly signals that the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review will entail big cuts to the UK’s science budget.
It was a depressing way to start the day, but I for one wasn’t particularly surprised by the news. We all know big cuts are coming, the only remaining questions are “how big?” And “where?”. However, when the text of the speech was released, I was shocked by what it revealed about the Secretary of State’s grasp of his brief. Read it for yourself and see if you agree with me. Vince Cable: Out of his Depth For what it’s worth I’ll repeat my own view that “commercially useful” research should not be funded by the taxpayer through research grants. So was Cable’s speech was feeble-minded, riddled with clichés, and totally lacking in depth or detail?
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