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There are better questions to put to ministers on science policy, like when will the freeze on science and research spending end, do they intend to increase the amount of funding linked to a researcher's impact, and do they want to further concentrate research funding, which would come at the cost of particular UK regions?
This exercise aims to concentrate research in ever decreasing numbers of institutions (thus rationalising cuts everywhere else).
After standing down in 2013 she acknowledged that narrow criteria of excellence would indeed tend to concentrate research funding.
It will concentrate research in four main laboratories, and all research on a particular disease will be located in a single laboratory.
But because big pharmaceutical companies prefer to concentrate research on drugs that will yield $1 billion in yearly sales, it is not clear how much incentive will be provided.
There was a "pressing need" for more consolidation between universities to concentrate research power, he added, and they should specialise more because few could keep a wide range of disciplines and be world-class research players.
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The government is tweaking its subsidy, concentrating research funding on those that gain (rather arbitrary) top ratings.
To counter this, many firms are cutting costs more layoffs await and concentrating research spending on the most promising areas.
The RAE has made funding very selective - as it was intended to do - and concentrates research money on a university elite.
Changes to the RAE have concentrated research funding in fewer universities and this trend, which appears to be universal, will doubtless continue.
This is confirmed by concentrating research allocations on the elite so that they maintain a virtuous circle of not taking any additional undergraduate students, heightening their scarcity value while keeping their staff free for prestigious research.
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