Sentences with phrase «granting councils»

The latter monies are not available for operating grants or other granting council research initiatives.

Instead, each of the nation's three granting councils received 6.3 % hikes in their core operating budgets.

I am pleased to be working with the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong to foster collaborations between social scientists which enable the best researchers to work together regardless of international borders.»

That year, a blue - ribbon panel from the Canadian Astronomical Society (CAS), chaired by Pudritz, hammered out a report aimed at the federal granting councils in Ottawa.

Through ACURA universities with support from the Federal Granting Councils, the National Research Council of Canada, and provincial funding, the Canadian astronomical community has contributed important work to TMT over the last decade in two key development areas.

The money would go to an arm's - length Future of Journalism & Democracy Fund, with a governance structure more independent of government than even the academic granting councils.

The federal government's granting councils provide more than $ 3 - billion a year toward research, making Canada one of the world's highest per capita government spenders on R&D.

The main grants council for bioengineering research in Canada.

Systems biology is just starting to be recognized by federal and provincial granting councils, says Figeys.

The Canadian research - granting councils now require that universities have guidelines in place for postdocs that stipulate minimum payment and the permissible duration of the postdoctoral experience and that identify who has administrative responsibility for postdocs.

Journalist Toby Young, who helped set up a free school in west London, said Mr Hunt had been «less than candid» about Labour's policy as it was considering granting councils the power of veto over free schools in their boroughs.

Some researchers were supported by the Hong Kong Research Grant Council, the Croucher Foundation, the Science City Research Alliance and the University of Washington Clean Energy Institute.

In addition, Mr. Speaker, Budget 2014 will result in the largest annual increase in funding for research through the granting councils in over a decade.

Led by Tom Jenkins, executive chairman of the Canadian software firm OpenText, panel members examined tax incentive programs, granting councils and other initiatives designed to help businesses innovate.

The extent of the decline is surprising given the nature of the components in this category — transfers to First Nations for education, health, social assistance, agricultural subsidies, student assistance, transfers to granting councils, among others.

When the Right to Buy scheme was introduced in 1980, it granted council tenants the legal right to purchase their home at a 33 % to 50 % discount of the market value.

The UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, China are pleased to announce eight new awards.

The Research Grants Council (RGC), which was established in 1991, operates under the aegis of the University Grants Committee (UGC) and functions as an advisory body on research matters within the organizational structure of the Committee.

The nation's three granting councils, which fund academic research, will see their combined $ 2.13 billion budgets remain flat this year.

The government's new fiscal plan also provides an additional $ 41 million divided among the nation's three granting councils, raising their combined budgets to approximately $ 2.5 billion.

The association says Goodyear should resign because of his unprecedented political interference into a granting council decision.

The budgets of the nation's three research - granting councils will stay flat, despite skyrocketing demand prompted, in part, by the new investment in university infrastructure.

Allocations for the nation's three research granting councils, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council will rise by an aggregate $ 31.04 million in each of the next 2 years.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty moved to partially offset scheduled cuts in the budgets of the nation's three granting councils, though they'll still take a blow and there'll be tighter competition for research operating grants.

«This will only allow the granting councils to barely maintain what they currently have, not meet new demand,» says Canadian Association of University Teachers executive director James Turk.

The president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Thomas Brzustowski, calls the boost «a statement of faith in the granting councils.»

The Canada Research Chairs program, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the granting councils (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research), says Gray, have all helped fuel Canada's evolution - research revolution.

The granting councils hope their modest increases will alleviate pressure from skyrocketing demand for grant funding.

Last week's announcement by Paul Martin of a 6.3 % boost for each of Canada's three granting councils won't relieve the pent - up demand from programs that are pumping up the country's scientific infrastructure.

Western University President Amit Chakma applauded the Canadian government for its ongoing commitment and support for university research through its granting councils as detailed in today's federal budget.

This research was supported by an Earmarked Research Grant (CUHK4620 / 05H) from the Research Grants Council, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China and by a grant from the University of Southern California's fund for Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences.