The Research and Development Division (RDD) of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has a remit to build research capacity and conduct policy relevant research.
Funded for 5 years (2008 2013), nine CLAHRCs operate across England, with the remit to close the research to practice gap.
Maybe fittingly for an organization called Noah's Ark, expanding research to Berkeley appears to be part of a wider remit to plant seeds for Huawei research globally: another recent outpost was created in Paris.
This needs to be reversed by providing both sufficient funds and the appropriate remit to focus on educating citizens and researching for the public good.
Based in Cairo, this national research centre has for remit to "explore and evaluate Egyptian desert land in order to select regions best suited for cultivation, as well as techniques for optimizing available resources".
The Wellcome Trust primarily funds biomedical research, but it takes its remit to support science outreach seriously.
The Neonatal Clinical Studies Group (CSG) of the Medicines for Children Research Network (MCRN) has a remit to develop the UK portfolio of neonatal medicines research.
Academics may not be well positioned to comment on teaching standards at other institutions, but it is clearly well within their remit to have a view on where the most significant research is currently taking place within their field.
Besides its research objectives, the Collaborative also has a remit to have the maximum positive impact on policy and practice.
This is backed up by research by the Citizenship Foundation, which, as part of its remit to help children understand their role in society, recently invited 1,750 children from primary schools to submit election manifestos.
