The Scientist reports that the House draft of a budget for the NIH would cut the maximun salary for a Principal Investigator (PI) by 17%, from $199,700 to $165,300. This cut would have its most obvious effect on federal support for MD scientists. Because salaries for MDs are much higher t[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ranking and Reputation’
Is the NIH Imploding?
IMAGINE THE REACTION TO A 50% CUT IN DEFENSE! That is the REALITY at the NIH. IMAGINE THE REACTION TO A 50% CUT IN DEFENSE! That is the REALITY at the NIH. Figures just published on Genomeweb look grim. The good news is that the NIH grant success rate is now 17.4%. The bad news […][...]
September 12th, 2011 - 8:45 am § in Schools & Colleges
Enrollement in Higher Ed in England Drops
More than half of English universities are expecting a fall in undergraduate numbers in the first year of higher fees, with the sector as a whole planning for a drop of almost 2 per cent. Read more at Times Higher Education.[...]
June 21st, 2011 - 4:19 pm § in Schools & Colleges
BREAKING NEWS: Bellevue, Bellevue, Bellevue
The Bellevue Public Schools dominated the latest Newsweek ranking of top pubic high schools with several showing in the top 300 across the USA. NO OTHER SCHOOLS IN WA STATE RANKED AT THIS LEVEL![...]
June 16th, 2011 - 6:09 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
The Decline and Fall of Education in Washington State
During WWII something pretty amazing happened here … A rural, hick state emerged at or near the top of America’s technocracy. Two war time efforts drove this transformation… Boeing built the airplanes that won the war and Hanford’s plutionium, dropped from one of those pl[...]
June 8th, 2011 - 6:42 am § in Schools & Colleges
Wellcome Fund Focuses on the best, the brightest, the Britishest and the most Oxbridgish with a touch of London added.
from Times Higher Education by Paul Jump excerpted In an interview with Times Higher Education to coincide with this week’s announcement of the first beneficiaries of the £56 million programme, Sir Mark said that the trust had concluded that the way to enable the best science was “to su[...]
April 19th, 2011 - 6:19 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Who is Richard Sandefer and Why Should I Care?
Sandefer is the founder of the Acton School of Business and a prime mover behind the effort in Texas to radically change the University of Texas. from Real Estate Investment Ideas No doubt the most unusual M.B.A. program in the country is run by the Acton School of Business in Texas. It is built o[...]
April 18th, 2011 - 10:49 am § in Schools & Colleges
Is the BS in business, just BS? A discussion in the NY Times.
The real problem highlighted here is that college is the new high school. Compared to my late father in law who studied and reveled in Shakespeare and serious European and American history and literature in high school, today college is the best chance for young minds to be educated and develop inte[...]
April 18th, 2011 - 8:37 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Regents pressed to adopt list of higher ed ‘reforms’
Perry emails show plan to downgrade Texas universities By PATRICIA KILDAY HART, AUSTIN BUREAU, www.chron.com April 17, 2011, 7:37AM ….In May 2008, Perry summoned all Texas university regents and chancellors to a higher education summit and to hear Austin businessman Jeff Sandefer, a major Perr[...]
April 13th, 2011 - 10:16 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Higher Education Group at Seattle MoveON
Starting after the Civil War, step by step America created a university system, including private and public colleges, that offered unheard of opportunities for an upwardly mobile America. The words are still thrilling .. GI Bill, Land Grant Universities, Pell Grants, National Merit Awards[...]