A Quote by David Willetts

My challenge as university minister is about getting right balance of teaching and research.

David Willetts

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About Balance Challenge Getting Minister Research Right Teaching University

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David Willetts
British - Politician
Born: March 9, 1956

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

Nancy Roman

It's about getting the right balance and knowing on the pitch when is the right time to take risks.

Ross Barkley

I'm aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women's minister about the importance of work-life balance.

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from the agony of research. The trouble, however, I freely admit, is that in practice you get either no teaching, or else far too much.

John Edensor Littlewood

My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come out, so to speak.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

Tony Campolo

I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war, death and nationhood. You need to use the right language or don't do it at all.

PJ Harvey

At Bristol I found it quite difficult to continue trying to balance three things - teaching, research and public engagement, for which television was obviously the most prominent part.

Alice Roberts

I think you can find a good, happy balance between being a great research university as Rutgers is and being a high-quality sports program.

Phil Murphy

The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is now a growing enterprise with many model and other econometric facilities.

Lawrence R. Klein

We need to challenge our own theology, challenge the curriculum of our Bible schools and our seminaries, and ask simple questions. Are we teaching and producing ministers who have the right message?

Myles Munroe

I won't say I've never felt in Alex Salmond's shadow, but latterly, when Alex was leader, I didn't. It's more about my awareness of the fact I became First Minister during a parliamentary term. That means you're First Minister, but you haven't been elected in your own right as First Minister.

Nicola Sturgeon

Actually, the University of California says they may start a marijuana research center. Really? I thought the University of California was a marijuana research center.

Jay Leno

My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.