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Local companies can tap a range of avenues to access capital that they may need to innovate, transform and scale up their businesses. "To catalyse the flow of capital and bridge market gaps, the Government will step up risksharing arrangements with providers of capital and provide grants to support businesses at various stages of growth," Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat said yesterday. For high-growth companies including start-ups, the Venture Debt Programme will be extended and enhanced -...

The Venture Debt programme will be extended and enhanced.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

DRDO, Indian Institute Of Science (IISc) To Establish Centre Of Excellence DRDO, Indian Institute Of Science (IISc) To Establish Centre Of Excellence Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, and Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on February 8 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish JTAP centre of excellence (JTAP-CoE) at IISc campus. Education | Edited by Bishal Kalita | ...

Jerome Hines operating one of the Ministry of National Security’s Articulated Truck Driving Simulators at the Caribbean Military Technical Training Institute in Montego Bay. (Photo: Contributed) After running from the police, getting caught and being sentenced to more than two years in juvenile detention for selling drugs, Jerome Hines, a resident of Flanker in St James, is now on track to acquire a new livelihood through the Ministry of National Security’s Articulated Truck Driving Progra...

​- Probiotic ice now available across FairPrice Finest outlets Uni-Tat Ice & Marketing Pte Ltd (“Iceman”) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (“NTU Singapore”) have launched a new ice product with added benefit for gut health.    The probiotic ice cubes developed by Iceman and NTU Singapore allow everyday consumers the flexibility of adapting and incorporating probiotics into food and drinks, without the need to make changes to their consumption patterns.  Probiotics i...

International Partnership Programme The International Partnership Programme (IPP) is a 5 year, £152 million programme run by the UK Space Agency. IPP uses the UK Space sector’s research and innovation strengths to deliver a sustainable, economic or societal benefit to undeveloped nations and developing economies. IPP is funded from the BEIS Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). As GCRF forms part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) ring-fenced budget, IPP is required to be ...

Share A senior lecturer at the College of Agriculture, Engineering, and Science, Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, Dr Adekemi Titilayo Dahunsi, has emerged as one of the beneficiaries in the 2020 edition of L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Sub-Saharan Africa, a research-based competition for the female gender in the academic world. Recently, Dr Dahunsi (nee Adesulu) was among the 20 female scientists selected by the jury of the 2020 Sub-Saharan African Young Talents Award from 330 applic...

Summer schools or repeat the whole year: six realistic ways our kids could catch up Opening schools is just the start of the challenge; how will the Government support children to catch up on lost learning? 8 February 2021 • 10:55am Rosie McColl, head teacher at Brighton Girls school: The last thing I want is for children to wither away when normality returns Credit: Danny Fitzpatrick The Prime Minister’s number-one priority is to get schools fully open again on March 8. While that may soun...

“We are also working with the voluntary and community sector to get recycled IT equipment. “But we are relying on the schools to tell us when somebody needs these.” She added: “If somebody has any laptops at home they are not using, it would be very useful if they could contact us and we could help to distribute those to the schools.” The Conservative-run council has provided children and care leavers in Wokingham with more than 280 laptops during the pandemic. It has also b...

Snap-Freezing Reveals a Truer Structure of Brain Connections Snap-Freezing Reveals a Truer Structure of Brain Connections Source: EPFL Most synaptic connections in the adult brain are situated on dendritic spines; small, micrometer-long, protrusions extending from the neurons’ surface. The spines’ exact size and shape determine how well signals are passed from one neuron to another. These details become very important when neuroscientists want to model brain circuits or understand how infor...