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		<title>Research council to pick favourites to receive UK chemistry funding &#8211; Chemistry World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UK&#8217;s largest physical sciences funding agency has announced a big policy shakeup which will concentrate research money in areas of &#8216;national importance&#8217;. This new direction, which the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) describes as &#8216;shaping capability&#8217;, will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REF looks to help academics who take a career break &#8211; Chemistry World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) has released it guidelines detailing how universities will be assessed in the upcoming Research Excellence Framework (REF), which will help to determine how much funding institutes receive. In the Assessment Framework and Guidance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pharma grinding to a hault? &#8211; Euroscientist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More evidence recently published by the 2011 Pharmaceutical R&#38;D Factbook indicates that the pharma industry’s productivity is continuing to decline. Fewer new molecular entities were launched in 2010 than in any other year in the past decade. The number of [...]]]></description>
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