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Comments on research funding proposals introduced by British Higher Education Minister Alan Johnson at the 2003 Universities UK Conference. Threat of increased selectivity; Universities' opposition to further concentration of research funding; Office of Science and Technology's proposal to require universities to be responsible for recovering the full costs of their research; Medical Research Council and Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council's practice of awarding of research funds to their top ten institutions; Disadvantages of too much concentrated funding.

Discusses the commercialization of academic research in Great Britain. Ethical concerns in research ownership and technology transfer; Scope of businesses' influence in university research; Commercial and economic impact of research; Correlation between business incubators and the scientific community. INSETS: Do not incubate to accumulate, by David Auckland.;Consult carefully before spinning off, by John Ashworth..

Focuses on the funding to be awarded by UK Clinical Research Collaboration to develop clinical research facilities in Great Britain. Clinical lectureship grants to be given by the consortium; Aim of the research facility funding; Implications of the funding for clinical researchers.

Focuses on the implications of the proposed metrics-based assessment of research for universities and research institutions in Great Britain. Effects of a metrics-based system of assessing research on the distribution of research funding in the country; Impact of the system on big research universities; Benefits of the system to bottom-rated universities in the country.

Deals with issues on the proposed metrics-based assessment of research in Great Britain. Publication of the proposed five metrics models that could replace the country's research assessment exercise; Implications of the proposed models for some of the country's research institutions; Impact of the proposal on key subject areas such as pure and applied mathematics.

Reports on the possibility that the underperforming research institutions in the Czech Republic will no longer be funded or even face closure under the changes in the way science is funded in the country. Budget allocated by the government for research; Status of the research community in the country according to Deputy Prime Minister Jiri Havel; Response of the scientific community to the proposed changes.

Reports on the European Union funding for Warwick University's Center for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization with the center's director, Richard Higgott. Finance for research to help government deal with issues such as infectious diseases, terrorism, financial stability, the environmental, development and gender inequality.

Reports on the impact of the withdrawal of the core funding from the Hannah Research Institute in Ayrshire, Scotland in April 2006. Number of scientific and specialist support staff to be affected by the closure of the institute; Possibility of more jobs that will be lost at other institutes; Claim by scientists at the Hannah institute they were misled into thinking that shifting into more basic research would secure their funding.

Reports on the multimillion-pound private donation for a computer research center given to Edinburgh University in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Focuses on the reduction in the university and research funding in France. Functions of the higher education; Rejection of the coalition government of Jacques Chirac by the voters; Replacement of Luc Ferry with Francois Fillon as education minister.

Reports on the budget cuts for seven research universities in Israel. Implementation of government-inspired changes to their governance influencing academic freedom; Proposals to hire rectors for universities; Issues on higher education and politcs; Reduction of the number of academics on the senate; Centralized control and a potential loss of academic freedom in the schools.

Reports that the way Great Britain's publicly funded scientific research establishments are run could hinder the implementation of government policies such as the public understanding of science. Principle performance indicators; Aim of the government to improve the commercialization of research output and enhancing public understanding; Focus on scientific peer-group interests.

Reports on the income of research institutes from certain universities and colleges in Great Britain as of January 2004. Top rankings of research institutions; Analysis of the financial performance of the top ranked research institutes; Sources of income.

Reports on the claim by Carol Fitz-Gibbon, head of the Curriculum, Evaluation and Management Centre of England's Durham University, that university administrators used the center's research income to reduce the university's financial deficit. Annual earnings of the center; Impact of the fund diversion on the operations of the center.

Reports on the increased deficits of Israel's seven research universities due to the country's deteriorating security situation. Reduction in higher education budget; Budget predictions by Shlomo Grossman, chairman of the Council for Higher Education's planning and budgeting committee; Criticism of research universities by Limor Livnat, education minister for the ruling Likud Party.

Reports on the proposal (RAE) by the British Council for Industry and Higher Education on the funding of university research projects. Proposal to replace research assessment exercise with a system where project costs are paid in full by research councils and external funders; Goals of the project-cost system; Disadvantages of the RAE system.

Reports that British academics and business leaders have criticized plans by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to replace the research assessment exercise (RAE) as a funding model for universities. Alleged failure of the HEFCE to address the basic problems of the balance between the two streams of the dual-funding system; Reactions of the Royal Society, the Universities UK, the Confederation for British Industry and Learning and Teaching Support Network to the RAE reform plans.

Reports that academics at Nottingham Trent University in England have threatened to strike after being told to focus their efforts on teaching if they can not pay their own research bills. Admission by vice-chancellor Peter Jones that the school can not anymore afford to subsidize staff research activities; Reduction in research funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England; Reactions by the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education.

Reports that the research aid proposals by the Higher Education Funding Council for England will enable more than 100 extra departments to receive the top 6* award status. Aim of creating a tier of elite well-funded research departments; Plan to award a 6* rating to departments that gained a 5* for the first time in 2001; Shift of funding from Oxford and Cambridge universities to Bristol and Southampton universities.

Reports on the expected radical restructuring of research funding in Great Britain. Recommendations of the study conducted by the Higher Education Funding Council for England; Increase in the establishment of funding streams; Pressure on universities to meet revised standards and make competitive bids for funding. INSET: THE RECOMMENDATIONS..

Presents a list of funds available for academic researchers in different countries as of September 3, 1999. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; Marine Microbial Biodiversity program of the Natural Environment Research Council; Natural History Museum in London, England.

Discusses how England-based Warwick University's business school avoids problems in performing research projects with commercial sponsors.

Comments on the competition for research funding among university research institutes and other entities of higher learning in Great Britain.

Reports on the proposal of politicians in Italy to use Eurobonds to fund research projects of universities. Hope of the politicians for support from their counter part in Europe; Details on the proposal.

Reports that the future of the British Centre for Historical Research in Germany has been secured following a successful campaign to save the Max Planck Institute for History in Gottingen, Germany. Plans to form part of an international historical research community; Permanent presence of British historians working on a range of German and European historical research.

Focuses on plans to channel public research funding towards wealth-creating sectors in France. Researchers' opposition against the plan; Allocation of research budget for 1997; Remarks of education minister Francois Bayrou regarding the issue.

Reports on the findings of an analysis of income submitted by institutions to the `Universities' Statistical Record' for 1993/94. Loss by higher education due to failure to achieve full-cost recovery in contract research work; Imperial College as the only institution to achieve more than 50% recovery in overheads; Views of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals (CVCP).

Reports on the European Commission's proposed measures to help universities in Great Britain recover the full cost of undertaking contract research for industrial sponsors. Emphasis on the need for intervention regarding research in universities; Development of repositories for surplus research results under a Common Academic Research Policy; Introduction of research set-aside and quotas.

Reports on changes made to the research assessment exercise (RAE), which is used by higher education funding councils in Great Britain, to assess the amount of that universities receive for research. When the RAE is schedule to take place; Reason the funding councils made changes to the RAE; Problems identified in the RAE; Comments from John Mulvey, of the pressure group, Save British Science; Effect of changes on the academic transfer market.