Sentence examples for mediocre research from inspiring English sources

It took six years and cost around £60m – yet the recent attempt to sort world-class from mediocre research in UK universities appeared remarkably undiscriminating.

Keele University is closing its German department in the latest of a series of shakeouts in departments faced with falling student numbers and mediocre research ratings.

Critics say that system often has resulted in the funding of mediocre research.

That system bred complaints that it often resulted in mediocre research.

All I can tell you is this--had you come here today and sat in front of me, and told me that you wanted to do mediocre research, were willing to play politics, and had no vision, I guarantee you wouldn't be accepted".

While we have extraordinary researchers, the quality of research is mediocre".

Spending on defense R&D is down, from a 43% cut of the federal R&D pie in 1991 to 26% in 1994, reflecting defense conversion and reductions in often-mediocre military applied research.

Our results show that data from the early years of the Danish Medical Birth Registry is of mediocre quality but can be used in further research with care.

Bureaucratic in-house research departments inspired little confidence, trudging on with mediocre drugs that failed, expensively, in clinical trials.Now, much of the work of discovering a medicine and testing, making it and selling it is done in partnership.

Mr Willetts could reduce university research grants, but that too would fail to curb mediocre institutions' tuition-fee ambitions, for research is concentrated in the elite ones.

The research firm said Novell's second-quarter results were mediocre, as expected, but that the value of the company's products and customer base is worth more than the current enterprise value.