News with tag 'science'

Date: 29/08/2019

The University of Mauritius hosted the 2019 ACU Summer School from 14-22 July, focusing on the theme 'Public health: from a small island state to the global community'.

The event brought together 43 students from 15 countries around ...

 
 
Date: 23/06/2017

Now more than ever, universities are expected to produce graduates who leave university with independent, creative and analytical thinking skills.

On Friday 16 June 2017, the ACU and Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

 
Date: 13/05/2016

Early career and established scientists in the Commonwealth are invited to apply for a limited number of funded delegate places at the Tags: research, bursary, science, conference, Commonwealth, PhD

 
Date: 05/04/2016

As part of the ACU’s work on open science, we are supporting a small cohort of early career researchers from member institutions in developing countries to attend a short course in the data science approaches and skills that are ...

 
Date: 05/11/2015

Applications are invited for the 2016 Edward Boyle Medical Elective Bursaries. These awards help medical scholars in the UK to obtain valuable practical experience in a developing country of the Commonwealth during their ...

 
Date: 15/05/2015

The SARIMA ACU conference was officially opened this week by Professor Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust. His keynote address was titled ‘Science, technology and innovation for a healthy, sustainable and prosperous globe ...

 
Date: 01/05/2015

Open access, open data and now open science and open innovation have become key funding themes, especially in the European Commission and the

 
Date: 15/03/2013

Open access to research data will be at the heart of discussions when dignitaries from the European Commission, and the U.S. and Australian governments meet with leaders in the data community at the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Launch and ...

 
Date: 02/11/2012

The importance of supporting early career researchers when building scientific capacity in developing countries – and the ACU's work in this area – was recognised by a UK Parliamentary committee last week.

In its report

 
Date: 20/02/2012

The Deputy Secretary General of the ACU, Dr John Kirkland, was invited to give evidence to the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee inquiry into the Department for International Development’s (DFID’s) support ...

 
Date: 11/11/2011

A new programme aiming to assist universities in getting research into use has been launched by the ACU, the Centre for Research into Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) at the University of Stellenbosch and Organisation ...