The Russell Group comprises 24 leading members of what institutions?
"2015. The Russell Group accounted for 49.1% of the income of the higher education sector in the UK in 2013–14, having risen from 44.7% of the total in 2001–02. Over the same period the total income of Russell Group universities rose by 69.9% in real terms, compared to a sector average of 54.4%. Russell Group universities are also seen as ""particularly creditworthy"" due to their membership of the group, allowing them to borrow money at low interest rates. The total annual income for Russell Group members for 2016–17 was £16.67 billion of which £4.38 billion was from research grants and"
"education, stating that endowments, a graduate contribution, increased public funding and top-up fees should all remain options. In December 2005 it was announced that the Russell Group would be appointing its first full-time director-general as a result of a planned expansion of its operations, including commissioning and conducting its own policy research. In November 2006 Queen's University Belfast was admitted as the twentieth member of the group. In the same month Wendy Piatt, the then deputy director in the Prime Minister's strategy unit, was announced as the group's new Director General and chief executive. In March 2012 it was announced"
"University Belfast joined as RLUK's newest member, meaning that all then-20 members of the Russell Group of universities were now members. Of the Russell Group's four new members that joined in 2012, all immediately became members of RLUK as well, with the exception of Queen Mary, University of London which joined RLUK in 2013. 5. Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? Research Libraries UK Research Libraries UK (RLUK) (formerly CURL) comprises 37 University, National, and other research libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Its aim is to increase the ability of research libraries to"
"group of university academics promoting the principles of academic freedom and the independence of universities from state and commercial control, and was instrumental in a crucial amendment to the Education Reform Act of 1988. Russell's health worsened in the late 1990s and he died of respiratory failure at Central Middlesex Hospital in 2004. Russell was predeceased by his wife in 2003. In his book ""Academic Freedom"", Russell examines the ideal and the limits of academic freedom, and the relations between the university and the state. He notes (p. 24) that his father's career is a reminder that a free society"
"is a founding member of the Russell Group, comprising the leading research-intensive universities in the UK, as well as the N8 Group for research collaboration, the Worldwide Universities Network, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, the White Rose University Consortium, the Santander Network and the CDIO Initiative. It is also affiliated to Universities UK. The Leeds University Business School holds the 'Triple Crown' of accreditations from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the Association of MBAs and the European Quality Improvement System. For 2016 entry, Leeds received over 50,000 applications for undergraduate courses, making it"
"was also a member until 2006, and the University of Warwick until July 2008. Durham University, University of Exeter, Queen Mary, University of London and University of York left in 2012. All have now joined the Russell Group. In October, the University of St Andrews and University of Bath withdrew from membership of the group. The University of Surrey also announced its intention to leave the group on 6 November 2012. On 19 December 2012 the University of Reading announced that it would cease to participate in the group, although its membership formally ended in July 2013. The 1994 Group"
"European University Association (EUA) and Universities UK. In 1998, King's joined the Russell Group, an association of 24 public research universities established in 1994. King's is currently the only British member of the Institutional Network of the Universities from the Capitals of Europe (UNICA), a network of major higher education institutions in the European capital cities. King's is a founding member of Global Medical Excellence Cluster (GMEC), the largest life science bio-cluster in the world established with the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, University College London and Imperial College London. King's is also the founding partner of FutureLearn, a massive"
"University of Surrey, University College London, University of Warwick and University of York. Of the 24 universities in the Russell Group, 22 are also in the Sutton Trust 30, and only Queen Mary University of London and Queen's University Belfast are not. In 2011 the Trust developed a teaching and learning toolkit in collaboration with Durham University. It provides a guide for teachers and schools on how best to use Pupil Premium funding to improve the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. The Toolkit summarises 10,000 studies to provide guidance for schools on how to use their resources to improve the attainment"
"Russell Group, and is part of UCL Partners, the world's largest academic health science centre, and the ""golden triangle"" of research-intensive English universities. UCL alumni include the 'Father of the Nation' of each of India, Kenya and Mauritius, the founders of Ghana, modern Japan and Nigeria, the inventor of the telephone, and one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. UCL academics discovered five of the naturally occurring noble gases, discovered hormones, invented the vacuum tube, and made several foundational advances in modern statistics. As of 2017, 33 Nobel Prize winners and 3 Fields medalists have been affiliated with"
"the founding director of the Disruptive Health Technology Institute or DHTI. DHTI is focused on transformational improvements in the affordability, accessibility, quality, and simplicity of health care solutions. Also in 2012 Russell served as Chair of the College of Fellows for the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, an elected body consisting of the top 2% of medical and bioengineers in the U.S. Russell is the author of over 150 published works (h-index 51/i10-index 124). Russell’s work has led to the awarding of over 20 patents such as: Russell has received many awards and honors, including the following: Dr."
"Russell Investments Russell Investments is a global asset management firm, founded in 1936. It provides multi-asset investing solutions to institutional investors, as well as to individuals via financial advisors. The company is owned by private equity firms TA Associates and Reverence Capital Partners. Russell provides financial and investment services to institutional clients such as pension funds, non-profits, healthcare systems and defined contribution plans. Individual investors can access these services through one of Russell's 580 partners, such as banks, brokers and insurance companies. Russell launched its family of U.S. indexes in 1984 to measure the U.S. market segments. The resulting methodology"
"Russell Top 50 Index The Russell Top 50 Index measures the performance of the largest companies in the Russell 3000 Index. It includes approximately 50 of the largest securities based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership and represents approximately 40% of the total market capitalization of the Russell 3000. The index, which was launched on January 1, 2005, is maintained by FTSE Russell, a subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group. Its ticker symbol is ^RU50. Prior to January 27, 2016, the index was tracked by an exchange-traded fund, the Guggenheim Russell Top 50 Mega"
"Russell Group of research-intensive British universities. Between 2010 and 2012 the university was criticised for accepting funds from controversial sources, including the government of Iran, the US State Department, the prime minister of Kuwait and British American Tobacco. The university announced in 2016 that it would relocate the colleges and academic activities currently at the Queen's Campus to Durham City from 2017; with the School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health being transferred to Newcastle University. The Queen's Campus became an International Study Centre to prepare overseas students to study at Durham, run by Study Group. In March 2017 Lord Rees"
"1994 Group The 1994 Group was a coalition of smaller research-intensive universities in the United Kingdom, founded in 1994 to defend these universities' interests following the creation of the Russell Group by larger research-intensive universities earlier that year. The 1994 Group originally represented seventeen universities, rising to nineteen, and then dropping to eleven. The Group started to falter in 2012, when a number of high performing members left to join the Russell Group. The 1994 Group ultimately dissolved in November 2013. The group sought ""to represent the views of its members on the current state and the future of higher"
"and within the context of the accomplishment of the internal market and of reinforced cohesion and environmental protection. About 32 000 non-British EU academics occupy 17% of UK university teaching and research posts. There are over 42,000 international staff (non-UK EU and non-EU nationals) working at the Russell Group universities, a group of 24 research-intensive British universities that include Oxford and Cambridge Universities. International staff make up 25% of the overall workforce, 39% of academics and 48% of staff on research-only contracts at Russell Group universities. Over the period 2008–2014, the UK produced 15% of the world's most highly cited"
"Group announced on May 18, 2015 the launch of ‘FTSE Russell’, the new integrated name created for the combined businesses of FTSE Group and Russell Indexes. Effectively splitting out the index business from Russell's advice, asset management and investment management offerings, FTSE Russell will now operate as one joint global index business which is no longer owned by Russell Investments or TA Associates. In North America, Russell delivers target date and target portfolio products directly to Defined Contribution (DC) plan sponsors, as well as distributes LifePoints Funds through financial professionals. Russell Investments Russell Investments is a global asset management firm,"
"the Snowdon Trust, founded by the Earl of Snowdon, which provides grants and scholarships for students with disabilities. Wendy Piatt Wendy Louisa Piatt (born 17 November 1970) was Director General of the Russell Group of research universities from January 2007 until February 2017. Piatt was born in Birkenhead, in the Wirral, and went to convent school there. She was awarded a first class honours BA in English from King's College London before studying for an MPhil in Shakespeare and Renaissance drama and then a D.Phil at Lincoln College, Oxford. Her thesis was entitled ""Politics and religion in Renaissance closet drama""."
"name, the school is organised into 25 academic departments and institutes which conduct teaching and research across a range of legal studies and social sciences. LSE is a member of the Russell Group and is sometimes considered a part of the ""Golden Triangle"" of universities in south-east England. For the subject area of social science, LSE places second in the world in the ""QS Rankings"", tenth in the ""THE Rankings"", and eighth in the ""Academic Ranking of World Universities"". LSE is ranked among the top fifteen universities nationally by all three UK tables, while internationally LSE is ranked in the"
"with degree-awarding powers and/or university title. The group's aim is to be ""the Russell Group of the alternative sector"" and to dissociate its members from more ""dodgy"" for-profit colleges. The university is one of the twenty-six English universities with a School of Medicine, i.e. it trains doctors at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Some of the founding academics migrated from the University of Oxford, disillusioned or wary of aspects of the late-1960s ethos. On 27 May 1967, ""The Times"" published a letter from J. W. Paulley, a physician, who wrote: Three London conferences followed which explored this idea. The university was"
"Russell Institution The Russell Institution (fuller titles: Russell Institution for the Promotion of Literary and Scientific Knowledge, and the Russell Literary and Scientific Institution) was an organisation devoted to scientific, literary and musical education, based in London. It was founded by private subscription in 1808, taking as models the Royal Institution and the London Institution, both at the time popular. The Institution was formed, somewhat opportunistically, to provide a revenue-paying purpose for an assembly hall which had been constructed in Coram Street, north of new housing around Bloomsbury Square. Previous ventures at the building having failed, the proprietors ""thought it"
"Russell Institution The Russell Institution (fuller titles: Russell Institution for the Promotion of Literary and Scientific Knowledge, and the Russell Literary and Scientific Institution) was an organisation devoted to scientific, literary and musical education, based in London. It was founded by private subscription in 1808, taking as models the Royal Institution and the London Institution, both at the time popular. The Institution was formed, somewhat opportunistically, to provide a revenue-paying purpose for an assembly hall which had been constructed in Coram Street, north of new housing around Bloomsbury Square. Previous ventures at the building having failed, the proprietors ""thought it"
"would lead more and more institutions to review their practice of setting fees below the cap"". Responding to the report Wendy Piatt, Director General of the Russell Group who represent 20 British universities, said ""There is a growing consensus that without increased investment, there is a real danger that the success of our world-leading universities will not be sustained. In a difficult economic climate there is even greater urgency to find additional funding"". She quoted research from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) which said that universities needed an additional 15-20 percent worth of funding for current teaching"
"Man"" (Macmillan, 1968), and ""Population Crisis and Population Cycles"" (1999). He also published a science fiction novel ""The Barber of Aldebaran"" (1995), wrote the introduction to ""The Myths of Greece and Rome"" (2000) and was a past president of the Folklore Society (and a regular contributor to their newsletter). The three Rs have been globally influential, including in Canada and India. In 2004, in response to a House of Lords Select Committee report informed by Russell's work, the UK launched the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research NC3Rs. Russell work has also been influential"
"""The editor of ""The Watchtower"" is the President of all three of these Societies. All financial responsibility connected with the work proceeds from [the Pennsylvania corporation]. From it the other Societies and all the branches of the work receive their financial support... we use sometimes the one name and sometimes the other in various parts of our work—yet they all in the end mean the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, to which all donations should be made."" Russell died on October 31, 1916, in Pampa, Texas during a cross-country preaching trip. On January 6, 1917, board member and society"
"Welfare Group, he piloted the Pet Animals Act 1951 through parliament. He also put pressure on the Board of Trade to ban the importation of tortoises as pets and promoted a private members bill to stop live cattle, ship and pigs being exported for slaughter. Russell died, aged 69, less than two months after the election. In 1933, Russell married Ena Glendenning Forrester of Middlesbrough, and they had two children, Ronald Charles and Jillian Margaret. Russell was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. As part of the 1964 New Year Honours, he was knighted ""for political and public"
"produced the broad market Russell 3000 Index and the small-cap Russell 2000 Index. The Russell Global Index, introduced in 2007, captures 98% of the global equity market and reflects the performance of more than 10,000 stocks worldwide. As of June 30, 2008, Russell's U.S. indexes have US$4.0 trillion in assets benchmarked to them and account for 63.3 percent of U.S. equity products benchmarked by U.S. institutional investors. Russell/Nomura equity indexes (calculated with Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.) offer broad market or style benchmarks for investors in Japan. After purchasing all of Russell from NorthWest Mutual in 2014, the London Stock Exchange"
"the Steering Committee for the National Review of Standards for the Tax Profession in 1993 and 1994. From 1991 to 1995 he was a member of the National Tax Liaison Group. David Russell has lectured and written extensively on taxation related topics in Australia and overseas, and served as a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of Australian Tax Practice. He has lectured at the University of Sydney for the Master of Taxation course, the University of Queensland for the Master of Laws course and served as an adjunct professor of the University of Queensland. He is the Australian correspondent"
"chaplaincy since 2005 and there is no restriction on religious groups among students. A ""quiet contemplation room"" also allows prayer for staff and students of all faiths. UCL is a constituent college of the federal University of London, of which it was one of the two founding members in 1836 (the other being King's College London). UCL is a founding member of the Russell Group, an association of 24 British research universities established in 1994, and of the G5 lobbying group, which it established in early 2004 with the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, Imperial College London and the London"
"from members, corporate partners and donors. The Royal Institution of Australia is governed by a council. As of 2017, council members are: Former council members include: Royal Institution of Australia The Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus) is a national scientific not-for-profit organisation with a mission to 'bring science to people and people to science'. It opened in October 2009. The concept of a Royal Institution of Australia was proposed by Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield CBE, as Thinker in Residence for the South Australian Government during 2004 and 2005. Greenfield was Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain from 1998"
"in shaping EU legislation. In 1990 Russell became an Emeritus Professor at the University of Reading and continued writing and publishing until his death in 2006. W. M. S. Russell William Moy Stratton Russell, aka Bill Russell, (1925 – 2006) was a British zoologist, best known for writing, along with R. L. Burch (1926-1996) ""The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique"" (1959), a landmark in the humane use of animals in research, education and testing. Russell and Burch introduced the concept of the Three Rs (replacement, reduction and refinement) in the scientific community and provided a blueprint for combining animal welfare"
"National Union of Students of the United Kingdom (NUS) and the Union of Students in Ireland (USI). In 2007 Queen's officially became a member of the Russell Group, (an alliance of twenty prestigious research universities across the UK) following this, the Students' Union joined the Aldwych Group (an alliance of the Unions whose universities belong to the Russell Group). Until the establishment of the Students' Union in 1966, there were three main student organisations at Queen's. The first of these was the Students' Representative Council which was located on University Square and was responsible for representing all students to the"
"AFL (under the Sherrin Brand). Russell Brands Russell Brands, LLC, headquartered in Bowling Green, Kentucky, is an American manufacturer of sports equipment, which markets its products under many brands and subsidiaries, including Russell Athletic (its flagship brand) and Spalding. Formerly a publicly traded company, Russell Brands has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway since 2006. The original ""Russell Manufacturing Company"", founded by Benjamin Russell in Alexander City, Alabama, in 1902, became ""Russell Corporation"" in 1973, under the presidency of Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr., who had taken over in 1968. By 1990, the company owned and operated 13 sewing"
"Russell serves and has served on the editorial board on many industry publications, such as: In 2015 Dr. Russell was the longest serving member on the FDA’s Science Board. He currently is serving on the board of: Active in the community, he also serves on the boards of the British-American Connections Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Alan J. Russell Alan J. Russell, Ph.D (born August 8, 1962 in Salford, Greater Manchester UK), is the Highmark Distinguished Career Professor and Director of the Disruptive Health Technology Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. From 2013 through spring of 2016 he was also"