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Chemistry World December 7, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Quality by Numbers The UK government has announced a shake-up in the way university research is assessed and funded.
Chemistry World June 2008 Seam McWhinnie	Science Funding in Crisis How the UK's research funding system is suffering from government interference.
Chemistry World February 2009 Richard Van Noorden	Editorial: Survival of the fattest The results of the UK's 2008 research assessment exercise, a national audit of university research quality, were announced late last year, and they were good news for the country's chemistry departments.
Chemistry World July 27, 2011 Leila Sattary	Research council to pick favorites to receive UK chemistry funding The UK's largest physical sciences funding agency has announced a big policy shakeup which will concentrate research money in areas of 'national importance'.
Chemistry World March 29, 2010 Leila Sattary	REF refined The Higher Education Funding Council for England has made changes to the proposed Research Excellence Framework following an extensive consultation with stakeholders in the research community.
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Chemistry World July 14, 2015 Anthony King	Metrics have their place but peer review remains king The Higher Education Funding Council for England is working on the next assessment of UK universities, the Research Excellence Framework. The outcome of REF affects the distribution of around 1.6 billion pounds of funding to universities.
Chemistry World March 2010	How good is research? As universities face increasing competition for the best minds of tomorrow and financial resources become scarce, reliable indicators for research performance have become indispensable for decision-makers in science and technology.
Chemistry World April 2, 2015 Maria Burke	Metrics failed to predict REF outcomes A team of mathematicians who used metrics to predict the outcomes of the UK's national assessment of research in 2014 have reported that their results were 'wildly inaccurate'.
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Chemistry World November 11, 2010 Laura Howes	Research impact rating to stay Impact assessment will remain a key part of the UK's new research assessment framework, following the results of a pilot scheme at a number of universities.
Chemistry World February 2, 2010 Anna Lewcock	Budget cuts hit university teaching University teaching is bearing the brunt of cuts to higher education funding, while science has been afforded a degree of protection, according to the latest figures announced by the Higher Education Funding Council for England
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Chemistry World May 2009	Funding fall-outs The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council recently announced plans to ban persistently unsuccessful grant applicants for one year. Why did it do this and why are some UK chemists unhappy about it?
Chemistry World October 27, 2009 Leila Sattary	Scientists reject economic impact assessment Almost 4,000 academics have signed a petition which claims that the UK's planned Research Excellence Framework is founded on a lack of understanding of how knowledge advances, and calls for the UK funding councils to withdraw the current proposal.
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Chemistry World September 2009	Education and wealth It seems that the UK government is interested in answering the question: what return does the UK get for the money it puts into academic research in chemistry?
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Chemistry World September 2007 Ian Pearson	Comment: Global Science Matters The UK's new science minister says that an international perspective is vital for scientific growth.
Chemistry World May 15, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	New Research Centres for UK Chemistry Two research centres hoping to add new dimensions to UK chemistry were officially launched last week.
Chemistry World July 20, 2011 Leila Sattary	REF looks to help academics who take a career break The Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) has released it guidelines detailing how universities will be assessed in the upcoming Research Excellence Framework.
Chemistry World July 12, 2010 Anna Lewcock	New research assessment plan postponed over impact The UK's universities and science minister has announced a one year delay to a new research assessment system, saying that time is needed to resolve concerns over how the social and economic 'impact' of research is measured.
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Chemistry World December 13, 2013 Maria Burke	UK overtakes US on research quality metric The UK has overtaken the US and now ranks first in one indicator of research quality, according to a new report commissioned by the UK's Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
Chemistry World November 6, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Chemistry departments running in the red in the UK UK university chemistry departments' finances are well into the red, according to a recent report on university balance sheets.
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Chemistry World October 2010	A renaissance in school chemistry John Holman, former director of the UK's National Science Learning Centre, is optimistic about the current state of chemistry education. But important caveats remain
Chemistry World December 16, 2009 Anna Lewcock	Research funding plan should be abandoned, say academics A petition bearing 18,000 signatures calling for the abandonment of economic impact assessment in research funding applications has been delivered to the Higher Education Funding Council for England
Chemistry World December 18, 2015 Ned Stafford	India maintains scientific edge despite static funding Researchers in India are increasingly authoring articles published in 'high-quality scientific publications' despite continued stagnation in Indian government spending for research, according to a new Nature Index analytics report.
Chemistry World November 20, 2007 Hepeng Jia	China Leaps up Research League Table China has overtaken Japan and the UK to become the world's second largest producer of science and technology (S&T) papers.
Chemistry World October 21, 2015 Maria Burke	Chemists' anxiety mounts as spending review nears The UK government will publish its spending review, setting out funding commitments and priorities for the next five years. This review will include funding levels for scientific research and wider public investment in science and engineering.
Chemistry World November 1, 2012 Patrick McGhee	Losing concentration In the UK, successive governments have held to the mantra that funding for university research should be heavily concentrated in a handful of universities.
Chemistry World December 17, 2009 Andy Extance	STFC funding axe bodes ill for UK science The UK Science and Technology Facilities Council has announced a series of program cuts and priority shifts, indicating a direction for British research that some researchers have reacted angrily to.
Chemistry World October 24, 2013 Mark Peplow	The judgement of your peers The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment has almost 10,000 signatories demanding that funders and institutions stop using journal-level metrics as a basis for such decisions, and instead focus on the scientific content of papers.
Chemistry World November 18, 2013 Philip Ball	Novelty hits top the charts Chemistry scores highly as an interdisciplinary subject on the basis of how often papers within the discipline cite ones from outside -- it is second only to biology, comparable to medical research, and better than, say, physics or earth sciences.
Chemistry World Richard Van Noorden	Interview: Douglas Kell As former director of the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, Douglas Kell is used to finding connections between huge reams of complex data by collaborating with scientists from chemistry through to computing.
Chemistry World August 20, 2014 Anthony Olejniczak	In defense of metrics As research funding fails to keep up with the growth of institutions and researchers, competition for that funding becomes increasingly fierce and purse-holders turn to various types of metrics to inform their decisions.
Chemistry World October 2, 2006 Gill & Sanderson	RSC to Launch Open Access Hybrid Model In a move to keep RSC publishing competitive, authors of RSC journal papers can now choose to have their research freely available the moment it is published -- for a fee.
Chemistry World June 4, 2010 Leila Sattary	US to measure research impact A new federal project promises to monitor the impact of the $8.9 billion contribution to US scientific research included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 stimulus package.
Chemistry World August 2007 Richard Jones	Comment: Grand Challenges for Small Science The UK needs to develop a convincing strategy for nanotechnology research.
Chemistry World October 23, 2012 Leila Sattary	EPSRC grant success rates rise The UK's largest physical sciences funding agency has experienced a significant decrease in the number of applications submitted in 2011 -- 12, which has led to the highest grant success rates in the last decade.