Fifty schools await fate in elite standoff

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The fate of 50 departments in universities in the UK hangs in the balance as government ministers and their higher education advisers attempt to resolve a standoff on how to select a new research elite group which will receive increased funding. The government's latest white paper on higher education demanded that some top-rated university departments be given a new 6* status, which will qualify them for a three-year increase in funding. The Higher Education Funding Council for England is backing a selection scheme that would require proof that the department has achieved a decade of sustained excellence in research - into which category about 100 departments from 33 universities fall - while the government favours a scheme that would give priority to departments with concentrations of top-ranked researchers - into which category 150 departments in 43 universities fall.

Government domestic functions, Social policy, Education policy

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RAE overhaul to stop games

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The way in which research funding is allocated to universities is to be fundamentally changed from 2009, with the next research assessment exercise replacing the existing grades with profiles of quality designed to bring to an end the game-playing by which universities attempt to maximise their financial gain. The next research assessment exercise, which will inform the allocation of about UKPd8 bil worth of funding, will make pockets of excellence immediately obvious and will reduce the risk that staff could be poached by bigger, better-funded departments.

Product information, Research and Testing Services, Scientific Research and Development Services, Research & Development-Universities, Testing, Education, Educational standards, University research, Educational aspects

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Research faces big overhaul

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Funding for research is set to be dramatically altered according to a review by the United Kingdom's funding council published in September 2000. The proposals would create more funding streams and universities would have to achieve certain standards.

Research

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