British universities face up to their day of reckoning
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Officials at British universities demonstrated mixed reactions to the recent core funding decisions of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). The HEFCE, which is tasked with distributing grants from the central government, based its decisions on the research performance of universities in England, Scotland and Wales. University College of London, for example, was rewarded with a 9.5% increase in its grant for 1998 when it garnered the highest possible mark in the research assessment exercise. Other universities, on the other hand, saw their allocation for research fall significantly.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
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Making British justice fair and sure
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Forensic services in Britain should be placed under the courts, not the police or a private agency, and should operate as an open forum rather than a hierarchy. That would limit the opportunity to apply partisan interests to ambiguous scientific evidence. Lord Runciman's Royal Commission on Criminal Justice recently criticized the quality of British justice and advocated that forensic services advise both prosecution and defense, an unworkable solution.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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