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Month: February 2004

  • Government, Funding Council and Universities: How Should They Relate?

    18 February 2004 by Bahram Bekhradnia

    Higher education is increasingly regarded by the Governments as central to the achievement of its social and economic policies. At the same time, over the last decade or so market forces have been allowed to play an increasing role in determining the direction of higher education and more particularly the…

  • What Future for Dual Support?

    1 February 2004 by Jonathan Adams and Bahram Bekhradnia

    The United Kingdom ‘s successful academic research base is underpinned by a system of funding that provides funds to institutions in two streams, one as part of their core grants, and provided by the Funding Councils, and the other generally in the form of project grants, provided by Research Councils.…