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Recent Developments in the Funding of University Research
Author(s) -
Clayton Keith M.
Publication year - 1987
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.1468-2273.1987.tb02112.x
Subject(s) - rationalisation , public funding , norm (philosophy) , class (philosophy) , distribution (mathematics) , higher education , political science , public relations , sociology , business , economics , public administration , economic growth , computer science , mathematics , law , mathematical analysis , geometry , artificial intelligence
The UGC norm‐based allocation of 1986, the current proposals for the rationalisation of departments, and the proposals of the Advisory Board for the Research Councils (ABRC) for R, X and T class universities are assessed against the actual operations of productive science departments and their patterns of expenditure on research as revealed born a recent sample survey. It is concluded that the UGC's norm‐based allocation did not in any systematic way secure increases related to current research activity except for those cases where this came from the student number‐based teaching element. Only the creation of larger departments seems likely to increase research output, and often that will best be achieved by increases in student numbers and their associated funding. Institutions similar to T class universities can be achieved by encouraging the recruitment of students at the expense of the public sector, but the distribution between R and X class universities is unsustainable.