The €4.6 billion Excellence Initiative has allowed universities to compete for extra funding and "elite" status, Kai Kupferschmidt and Gretchen Vogel wrote in this week's Science.
On 3 February, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon announced five new winners in the €7.7 billion Excellence Initiatives, which aims to help create a group of five to 10 world-class research and higher education clusters.
On 3 February, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon announced five new winners in the flagship component of the stimulus, the €7.7 billion Excellence Initiatives (Idex), which aims to help create a group of five to 10 world-class research and higher education clusters.
The Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation has provided substantial budget hikes for nonuniversity organizations like the Max Planck Society and the Helmholtz Association, and the €4.6 billion Excellence Initiative has introduced a new element of competition into German universities by making them vie for the title "elite university".
As a chilling example of just how low journalistic standards have sunk in this country, he has won many awards, including seven Excellence in Journalism Awards for Humorous Writing from the Society of the Silurians, which is based in New York City and is the oldest press club in the United States, and six awards for humorous writing from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
Conductivity was measured by using a Seven Excellence Conductivity Meter with a conductivity probe Inlab 731.
In law school, Stacy won two CALI Excellence For The Future Awards® that are bestowed upon the highest scoring student in each law school class.
The New York Times Company recognized the genius of Michael's approach in 2010 when it awarded NYLPI one of its top three Nonprofit Excellence Awards, which recognize management excellence in the city's nonprofit community, the first legal organization to be so recognized.
Think of Toyota and its lean manufacturing system, say, or GE and Six Sigma excellence.
Above all, ignore the school's marketing material – most of which will make a play on three words: excellence, creativity and community – and go with what seems right in the flesh.
