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U.K. business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said this week that a new high-risk U.K. research agency would be located within his department. Wiktor Szymanowicz/Barcroft Media via Getty Images
New U.K. funding agency would tackle innovative research
Feb. 19, 2021 , 2:15 PM
The U.K. government has released its plans for emulating the storied high-risk, high-reward U.S. funding agency, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). During the 2019 election campaign, the Conservative government promised to set up such an agency, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former adviser Dominic Cummings pushed for it. Now, it has a name: the Advanced Research & Invention Agency (ARIA), and a confirmed budget. Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng announced today it would be funded by an initial £800 million over 4 years, and would begin to disburse grants by 2022.
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Manchester University students to hold historic no confidence vote in Vice Chancellor Nancy Rothwell I think students feel completely violated in terms of their rights
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Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell (Image: Graeme Cooper)
Students at the University of Manchester are to hold a historic vote of no confidence in the Vice-Chancellor Nancy Rothwell.
Campaigners were granted the right to a referendum from 8-11 March following a series of controversies surrounding the university s handling of the pandemic this academic year.
The vote, thought to be the first of its kind in the university s history, will ask students if they wish to declare they no longer have confidence in the Vice-Chancellor and her Senior Management Team.
First published on Thu 11 Feb 2021 10.53 EST
Students at Manchester University have launched a revolt against their vice-chancellor over the university’s mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic and have demanded she step down over her “complete failure of management”.
The Manchester students’ union will hold a vote of no-confidence in the vice-chancellor, Nancy Rothwell, the first time in its nearly 200-year history such a motion has been triggered. If the vote in March is successful, it will be reported to the university’s board of governors, which will decide whether to take further action.
Ben McGowan, one of the student organisers of the Nancy Out campaign, said: “The frequency and volume of mistakes and complete disregard for students make clear it’s not a one-off thing, it’s a complete failure of management.”