Degrading proposals

Article Abstract:

Proposals by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to change the way which different academic disciplines will be funded will have an highly detrimental effect on a number of disciplines, including engineering, computer science and psychology. The plans, which will have an overall effect of shifting funding to the arts and humanities from science, will have a particularly bad effect on psychology, de-sciencing what has become a mainly laboratory-based subject and, in the long-term, causing irreversible damage to one of the country's most vibrant sciences, and the only one to surpass its North American counterpart in a bibliographic survey of quality and impact of research.

Government expenditures, Government domestic functions, Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, England, Psychology & Psychiatry, Finance, Social policy, Study and teaching, Psychology, Higher Education Funding Council for England, Government finance, Education policy

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We must refuse to play this 'destructive game'

Article Abstract:

Issues relating to the review of university research assessment conducted by Sir Gareth Roberts are examined. It is argued that the proposals put forward by Roberts to the Higher Education Funding Council for England constitute the most destructive set of proposals ever made for the future of research in the United Kingdom and that academics must oppose them and refuse to play Roberts' game if they do not wish this destruction of research to proceed.

Analysis, Evaluation, Roberts, Gareth

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ESRC cuts red tape that deters cross-border collaborations

Article Abstract:

The U.K.'s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has announced plans to reduce red tape to enable easier cross-border collaboration with overseas researchers. A common set of peer review criteria that could lead to borderless funding is also being considered.

Management dynamics, International aspects, Universities and colleges, Company business management, Economic and Social Research Council

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