Treasury to focus on top 10

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The Treasury wants to use a new metrics-based research assessment system which would concentrate research funding further, and possibly create a top tier of no more than 10 institutions, according to claims by vice-chancellors. The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) believes funding should be largely concentrated between 25 universities, while the Treasury believes it should be 10, according to one vice-chancellor.

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Early-career cash fillip

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Rule changes in the New Investigator Scheme, run by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, have enabled early-career bioscientists to secure funding more easily than earlier to set up their own laboratories. Researchers with no track record of independent research are greatly benefited by the overhaul of the eligibility criteria.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Financial management, Science & research, Research & Development, Biologists, Research & Development NEC, Research, Finance, Research institutes, Research grants, Research funding, Company financing

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RAE in 2008 is saved from axe

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The Government will publish a consultation document which sets out proposals for a major overhaul of the GBP 1 billion per year research funding system. The document is expected to end calls for the immediate axeing of the 2008 RAE, according to insiders.

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