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As with the original Race to the Top grants, in which the Obama administration used federal money to leverage its education agenda, the White House hopes to use the new college competition to spur systemic state reform that would reduce costs and encourage college completion.
The investigation of MOST, announced on Wednesday, dredged up a number of grants in which researchers held "too many outside positions" and had conflicts of interest, and it cited irregularities in "overseas business travel, business vehicles, and meetings," in conflict with President Xi Jinping's ongoing austerity push.
The previous model used by the government for distributing improvement grants in which municipalities and county councils applied for funding had failed to produce intended outcomes.
These include activities such as institutional type grants when selection of specific projects is the institution's responsibility; research training grants in which the activities involving subjects remain to be selected; and projects in which human subjects' involvement will depend upon completion of instruments, prior animal studies, or purification of compounds.
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