Consultants' new contract

Government could fire and rehire consultants to introduce new contract, says BMA.

The government could fire and rehire consultants in order to move them on to a new contract, the BMA has said. Delegates at the BMA’s annual UK consultants’ conference in London on 3 March heard that this could be one option considered by the government if consultants rejected its final contract offer. The government has yet to announce a firm offer for changes, but Rob Harwood, the BMA Consult...

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Americo Abbruzzese Herbert L. Abrams Stanley J. Adelstein Milton H. Alper William A. Altemeir Alan G. Birtch Bruce R. Brener John R. Brooks Hathorn P. Brown Theodore Colton Oliver Cope Nathan P. Couch Chilton Crane Gustave J. Dammin Donald P. Dressler J. Englebert Dunphy Richard W. Dwight Robert M. Filler William P. Grigsby Richard E. Hicks David Littmann Emmanuel Mannarino William V. McDermott...

Creating ‘Science’s New Social Contract’?

In this paper we shall give a background to some of the main theoretical literature on the subject of what has been called (by Gibbons) “science’s new social contract with society”; central to this new contract is what is called “Mode-2 knowledge production” (Nowotny) characterised by the more open approach of transdisciplinarity allied to an extended peer review. Mode-2 knowledge production al...

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