Blair's failure
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The Department for Education and Skills is criticized for a lack of responsiveness and excessive control, and therefore scientists and their organizations need to put pressure on Tony Blair's administration as it enters a third term in office. The rise in the grant-funding science budget is not accompanied by appropriate infrastructural and teaching support from higher-education funding councils.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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London's disastrous drug trial has effects for serious side research
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A drug trial in London adversely affected healthy volunteers when they received intravenous injections of TGN1412, an antibody made by a biotechnology firm in Germany where the drug is developed to fight autoimmune diseases and leukaemia. The trial was the first test of the drug in humans and it was immediately suspended by the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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English grants under review
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The effects of the changes that are proposed to be made to the funding system of the English universities are analyzed. The Higher Education Funding Council for England claims that the new system will help in making the application processes fairer and easier.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2008
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