Upbeat UWE will not be sidelined

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The University of the West of England (UWE) is sticking to its guns as far as its opposition to the UK government's white paper for the future of university funding with the launch of a genomics institute - the university's first institute. The move by the UWE comes despite the fact that it earned only a 3a grade for biomedicine in the last research assessment exercise, making biomedicine almost a non-department at the university under the government's new research funding plans. Wendy Purcell, faculty dean at UWE admits that the "RAE score was crap", but states that the university is working with international business for the institute, and that funding decisions are therefore based on hard business rather than academic peer review.

Services introduction, New Products/Services, Product introduction, Company service introduction, Service introduction, Genomics, Educational aspects, University of the West of England

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Arms links at 67 UK institutions

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Research conducted by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) under the Freedom of Information Act has revealed that 67 universities in the UK have substantial investments in six leading arms companies. The CAAT hopes that its research will bring increased scrutiny on university investments and provide added incentives for the sort of ethical investment campaign that caused the University of East Anglia to divest its arms company investments in 2001.

Financial management, Science & research, Public affairs, Ethics, Research, Company investment, Investments, Ethical aspects, Socially responsible investments

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Salford staff claim bosses close ranks

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Staff at Salford University have alleged that managers are "complicit in acts of discrimination" and that they close ranks in order to protect one another against misconduct claims. The allegations are contained within an equality audit commissioned by the university. The report calls on the institution to take urgent steps to restore trust among its black and other ethnic minority staff.

Labor force information, International Affairs, Personnel administration, Racial Oppression, Human resource management, Reports, Prevention, Employment, Company personnel management, Race discrimination, Civil rights, Minority college teachers, Minority college faculty, University of Salford

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