Clean tech big winner in £250m research grant programme

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New doctorate centres to churn out 2,000 PhD students, many with a focus on clean tech and the low carbon economy

Climate change and low carbon technologies were at the centrepiece of a new £250m programme to boost the number of PhD graduates in the UK that was formally launched late last week. The funding, which...

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