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THE UNIVERSITIES AND THE RESEARCH COUNCILS IN BRITAIN
Author(s) -
SCOTT PETER
Publication year - 1947
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2273.1947.tb02074.x
Subject(s) - political science , higher education , public administration , sociology , law
The British government supports Ave semi‐independent research councils covering agriculture, medicine, science, social science and the environment. These councils do not follow the same procedure but axe an important element in the support of research in universities and in the maintenance of postgraduate students. It is possible that some of these research councils may be brought to an end and this would mean that universities would have to deal directly with the government departments concerned. Their budgets have not expanded at the same rate as the universities; if the same proportion of undergraduates stays on to undertake research and if this increasing number continues to be maintained from council funds, the expenditure on research will decline.