1. Cracks in the Monolith: CNRS Begins a Long-Awaited Reform.
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Casassus, Barbara
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RESEARCH , *SCIENCE & state , *RESEARCH grants , *LIFE sciences , *SOCIAL sciences , *PHYSICAL sciences - Abstract
This article reports that the chiefs of France's CNRS, the largest basic research agency in Europe, have adopted a plan to shake the place to its foundations. Although many agreed that reform was overdue, it has taken more than a year of tough negotiations between the government and research unions to bring it off. Some observers were worried that the government might gut CNRS. The new plan calls for CNRS to reduce its thematic science departments from eight to four: chemistry, social sciences, life sciences, and a giant grouping of math, computer science, physics, and science of the planets and the universe.
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- 2005
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