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Chemistry World April 25, 2014 Emma Stoye	EPSRC announces 83.5m boost for PhD training The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council will invest an additional 83.5 million pounds this year in doctoral training partnerships in the UK, universities and science minister David Willetts has announced.
Chemistry World January 12, 2011 Andy Extance	EPSRC plans represent 'huge change' Academics are concerned that research grant cuts through to 2015 at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, changes in how students are funded, and more centralized control will threaten science careers.
Chemistry World April 2, 2013 Laura Howes	Funding boost for PhDs UK research funder, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, has announced 84.2 million for doctoral training grants, stipends awarded to institutions to fund PhD students.
Chemistry World July 27, 2011 Leila Sattary	Research council to pick favorites to receive UK chemistry funding The UK's largest physical sciences funding agency has announced a big policy shakeup which will concentrate research money in areas of 'national importance'.
Chemistry World October 23, 2012 Leila Sattary	EPSRC grant success rates rise The UK's largest physical sciences funding agency has experienced a significant decrease in the number of applications submitted in 2011 -- 12, which has led to the highest grant success rates in the last decade.
Chemistry World January 8, 2015 Patrick Walter	EPSRC head pledges greater dialogue with researchers The new head of the UK's physical sciences research council plans to make engagement his watchword.
Chemistry World February 3, 2012 Patrick Walter	NERC asks institutes to weed out poor grants The UK Natural Environment Research Council is planning to ask institutes to winnow out 'uncompetitive' proposals in an effort to drive up its grant application success rates.
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Chemistry World November 25, 2013 Patrick Walter	New doctoral training centers get go ahead UK science minister David Willetts has announced 72 new centers to train more than 3500 PhD students over the next four years.
Chemistry World May 2009	Funding fall-outs The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council recently announced plans to ban persistently unsuccessful grant applicants for one year. Why did it do this and why are some UK chemists unhappy about it?
Chemistry World January 31, 2014 Patrick Walter	EPSRC names new chief executive The next chief executive of the UK's main chemistry funding body will be Philip Nelson, currently pro-vice chancellor of the University of Southampton.
Chemistry World September 2011	Future funding concern The announcement by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council about future research funding has caused concern in the chemistry community.
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Chemistry World March 12, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Funding Shift Worries Researchers Government and research funding bodies are shifting funding towards projects with measurable societal and economic impact -- triggering protests from many academics, who see the strategy as dangerously short sighted.
Chemistry World November 8, 2011 Walter & Howes	EPSRC sticks to its funding strategy guns The UK's principal chemistry funding body is pressing ahead with its controversial 'shaping capability' strategy. This is despite anger over the way the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has said it will decide which areas to prioritise in the physical sciences.
Chemistry World January 25, 2008 Ananyo Bhattacharya	EPSRC Forced to Cut Science The UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is to cut the volume of science it funds over the next three years.
Chemistry World January 31, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Funding council backs doctoral training centers with 350m pounds. The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has announced that it will invest 350 million pounds in a second generation of Centers for Doctoral Training aligned towards priority areas of research.
Chemistry World March 18, 2010 Anna Lewcock	Universities face cuts as Hefce deals with first funding drop in years As the Higher Education Funding Council for England announces how it plans to distribute 7.4 billion in funding, uncertainties over future cuts and shifts in the political landscape cause anxiety in academia.
Chemistry World January 15, 2014 Patrick Walter	Funding confirmed for another 19 doctoral centers David Willetts, the UK's science minister, has announced an additional 40 million pounds for doctoral training in the UK. The extra money came from further industry support and academia, as well as 'renegotiating' some university contracts.
Chemistry World January 29, 2013 Laura Howes	Five green chemical feedstock projects launched The UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has announced 10.7 million pounds, in combination with 1.1 million pounds from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, to fund five projects to develop new bio-based feedstocks for the chemical industry.
Chemistry World March 7, 2014 Mark Peplow	The value of trust When Philip Nelson becomes chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in April, he has to convince government to increase investment in research and to to win back the trust of the very scientists that the council funds.
Chemistry World July 1, 2010 Sarah Houlton	Austerity measures hit higher education UK universities have been hit with further cuts as the government introduces stringent measures to reduce the budget deficit.
Chemistry World November 2008 Ananyo Bhattacharya	Editorial: Competing priorities The UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has been restructuring the way it funds chemistry. It is focusing on funding multi-disciplinary teams in large research programs for longer times.
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Chemistry World May 16, 2012 Patrick Walter	The death of UK science? A new lobby group of scientists launched itself with a mock funeral for UK science to protest recent actions taken by the main funder of chemistry research in the UK, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Chemistry World May 5, 2009 Anna Lewcock	EPSRC back-tracks on funding policy The Engineering and Physical Science Research Council has today bowed to pressure from the scientific community and revised its recent policy on blacklisting academics with low success rates for grant applications.
Chemistry World June 27, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	UK's chem-bio interface gets mixed report United Kingdom scientists working at the interface between chemistry and biology think their research councils don't adequately support interdisciplinary research, a survey suggests.
Chemistry World August 16, 2011 Patrick Walter	Chemists Vent Anger at Funding Body in Letters to UK Government UK chemists are in open revolt over administrative interference in their field by the main grant funder.
Chemistry World December 5, 2008 Matt Wilkinson	250m to train new breed of UK scientists The UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has selected 44 new centers to share a 250 million injection into postgraduate science education.
Chemistry World July 17, 2012 Laura Howes	3.5 million for UK bioenergy research hub David Willetts, UK Minister of State for Universities and Science, has announced the formation of the SUPERGEN bioenergy hub, to accelerate the deployment of sustainable bioenergy.
Chemistry World October 11, 2007 Ananyo Bhattacharya	Exclusive Interview: EPSRC's New Chief Executive, David Delpy UK chemists have been too content to 'fill the gaps' instead of tackling big, exciting problems. That's the view of medical physicist David Delpy, who recently started work as the chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Chemistry World July 18, 2011 Patrick Walter	UK chemistry threatened by funding squeeze Chemistry in the UK is in danger of falling behind its international competitors as a result of a squeeze on funding for vital lab equipment, according to chemistry department heads.
Chemistry World February 2, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Higher education funding boost confirmed for England The UK government has confirmed that it will increase funding for higher education in England by approximately 1 billion pounds in the forthcoming financial year.
Chemistry World August 19, 2009 Hepeng Jia	China drug scheme funds out of reach Funding through China's multi-billion yuan key drug development scheme could become harder to come by over the next five-year term of the program, according to a senior representative.
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Chemistry World April 4, 2013 Joe Connor	An artful solution to scientist shortfall There has been much attention given recently to concerns regarding the overproduction of science graduates in the United Kingdom.
Chemistry World June 8, 2011 Laura Howes	MPs warn funding reform threatens university places A cross party group of MPs has said that the new funding arrangements for UK higher education will result in a 'significant funding gap of hundreds of millions of pounds'.
Chemistry World November 24, 2015 Rebecca Trager	US universities face federal R&D funding fall American universities experienced a continuing decline in federal research and development funding in fiscal year 2014, according to new data from the US National Science Foundation.
Chemistry World November 1, 2012 Patrick McGhee	Losing concentration In the UK, successive governments have held to the mantra that funding for university research should be heavily concentrated in a handful of universities.
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Chemistry World January 14, 2014 Maria Burke	Funding sharing model would see grant proposals ditched A Google-inspired crowdfunding system for evaluating and funding research could provide a better alternative to peer review, US researchers claim.
Chemistry World March 15, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Budget Cuts for UK Science Scientists and research managers in the UK have reacted with dismay to a 68 million-pound raid on the budget of the research councils - the state agencies that fund the bulk of civil science research in the country.
Chemistry World July 20, 2011 Leila Sattary	REF looks to help academics who take a career break The Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) has released it guidelines detailing how universities will be assessed in the upcoming Research Excellence Framework.
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