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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.
Chemistry World January 5, 2010 Leila Sattary	Red card for REF Universities, learned societies and educational establishments have raised concerns about the UK's proposed new Research Excellence Framework, with particular controversy surrounding the impact assessment element of the evaluation process.
Chemistry World September 23, 2009 Leila Sattary	Brace for research impact exercise University research funding will be distributed partly according to measures of 'research impact', the Higher Education Funding Council for England has revealed.
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.
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 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.
Chemistry World January 8, 2010 Leila Sattary	Hefce takes more hits over impact A poll of UK professors finds that over a third would consider pursuing their academic career abroad if current UK plans to assess and reward research impact are implemented.
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 June 28, 2010 Anna Lewcock	Turbulent ride for impact pilot Universities involved in a Higher Education Funding Council for England's pilot scheme pilot exercise to establish how to best assess research impact have found it a difficult and time-consuming process.
Chemistry World June 2008 Seam McWhinnie	Science Funding in Crisis How the UK's research funding system is suffering from government interference.
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 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
Chemistry World December 19, 2014 Maria Burke	'Great outcome' for chemistry in REF 2014 The REF results are hugely important to higher education institutions as they are used by the four UK funding bodies to allocate research funding.
Chemistry World March 12, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Funding Shift Worries Researchers Government and research funding bodies are shifting funding towards projects with measurable societal and economic impact -- triggering protests from many academics, who see the strategy as dangerously short sighted.
Chemistry World March 5, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Hefce announces how RAE money will be distributed This includes 1.6 billion for research, based on the outcome of the revamped Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
Chemistry World March 30, 2015 Maria Burke	Time spent assessing research impact was worthwhile At the request of the UK's higher education funding bodies, RAND Europe, an independent not-for-profit research institute, conducted two evaluations of the impact component.
Chemistry World March 23, 2010 Leila Sattary	MPs warn science cuts will harm economy Stop spending cuts now or risk devastating British science and the economy, says a report published today by the UK government's Science and Technology Committee.
Chemistry World October 20, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	UK chemists warn of funding crisis Senior researchers have warned that a sharp drop in the number of research grants awarded this year risks damaging UK chemistry.
Chemistry World March 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Funding Council Powerless to Intervene in Department Closures Investigations into proposals to cut chemistry teaching at Sussex University have highlighted weaknesses in the Higher Education Funding Council for England's (Hefce) strategic powers, according to politicians.
Chemistry World November 3, 2015 Andy Extance	Gamblers judge research quality cheaply and well Getting chemists to bet on the outcome of the UK's Research Excellence Framework system for assessing university research quality could trim its costs.
Chemistry World February 4, 2011 Leila Sattary	Higher education cuts hit home Universities in England will lose 940 million in funding in the next financial year with severe cuts to capital budgets and teaching.
Chemistry World January 2008 Gurney & Adams	Comment: How Good is UK Chemistry? Using bibliometrics as the key measure, the author compares the publication output of different countries.
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 February 3, 2012 Patrick Walter	NERC asks institutes to weed out poor grants The UK Natural Environment Research Council is planning to ask institutes to winnow out 'uncompetitive' proposals in an effort to drive up its grant application success rates.
Chemistry World March 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Riding the RAE Rollercoaster For chemists, a shift to metrics may bring welcome relief from the time-consuming and onerous RAE, first praised but increasingly criticized for its effect on UK research.
Chemistry World May 16, 2012 Patrick Walter	The death of UK science? A new lobby group of scientists launched itself with a mock funeral for UK science to protest recent actions taken by the main funder of chemistry research in the UK, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
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.
Chemistry World June 8, 2011 Laura Howes	MPs warn funding reform threatens university places A cross party group of MPs has said that the new funding arrangements for UK higher education will result in a 'significant funding gap of hundreds of millions of pounds'.
Chemistry World December 3, 2009 Nina Notman	English university funding squashed again English academics won't be feeling the festive cheer, after yesterday's announcement that a further 135 million pounds has been chopped from the country's higher education funding.
Chemistry World March 17, 2010 Ned Stafford	Ditch the paperwork, say researchers Thousands of frustrated researchers have signed a petition calling for change to the European Union's funding processes, criticising the current system as untrusting, complicated and riddled with cumbersome financial and administrative regulations.
Chemistry World March 18, 2010 Anna Lewcock	Universities face cuts as Hefce deals with first funding drop in years As the Higher Education Funding Council for England announces how it plans to distribute 7.4 billion in funding, uncertainties over future cuts and shifts in the political landscape cause anxiety in academia.
Chemistry World December 15, 2014 Maria Burke	Can research quality be predicted by metrics? In terms of funding and reputation, the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise is a vital event in the academic calendar. Now a team of researchers has made predictions about the results of the latest assessment using citation-based metrics, rather than peer review.
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.
Information Today August 6, 2015	Jisc Supports OA Efforts in Higher Education Jisc will work with universities and researchers to help meet requirements for open access in response to Research Councils UK reviewing its OA policy and HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) updating OA requirements.
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 February 2, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Higher education funding boost confirmed for England The UK government has confirmed that it will increase funding for higher education in England by approximately 1 billion pounds in the forthcoming financial year.
Chemistry World May 15, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Sussex Reprieve Raises Intervention Issue Proposed plans to close the U.K.'s University of Sussex chemistry department have been scrapped and a new department of chemistry and biochemistry created.
Chemistry World October 12, 2012 Laura Howes	Government adds 200 million to research partnership fund At the Conservative party conference earlier this week, UK chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne pledged 200 million of new money to the Research Partnership Investment Fund which supports university capital projects.
Chemistry World July 1, 2010 Sarah Houlton	Austerity measures hit higher education UK universities have been hit with further cuts as the government introduces stringent measures to reduce the budget deficit.
Chemistry World October 2011 David Delpy	EPSRC Funding The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is having to make some tough funding decisions.
Chemistry World March 15, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Update: Thriving Chemistry Department Faces Closure An emergency evidence session of the UK parliamentary Science and Technology select committee is being considered to address proposals to cease chemistry teaching at Sussex University.
Chemistry World October 22, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Investment rekindles interest in science A recent upturn in the number of university students taking science and maths in England suggests interest in the sciences is on the rise again
Chemistry World June 12, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	UK chemists must take control The Engineering and physical sciences research council second international review of UK chemistry has warned that too little is being done to support early-career researchers and encourage high-risk research.
Chemistry World April 30, 2010 Sarah Houlton	EU research faces radical overhaul The European Commission has responded to calls from researchers to cut red tape in EU funding processes and has also proposed radical changes to EU research funding policies, moving towards linking payment to results.
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 February 27, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Science community urged to unite on open access Arguments over fine detail should not derail moves towards open access publishing for scientific research, according to those with the biggest stake in future changes.
Chemistry World November 23, 2015 Patrick Walter	Chop and change The plans for how much money the nation's science base will be allotted over the next five years will currently be sitting on the U.K. chancellor's desk
Chemistry World December 11, 2009 Anna Lewcock	Hundreds of millions to be slashed from UK science budget Money is being sucked out of the research pot
Chemistry World September 2011	The research excellence framework 2014 I will try to cover some general aspects of the REF 2014 exercise: the ways in which it both resembles and differs from the research assessment exercise 2008 and its importance for the higher education sector in general and for chemistry in particular.
Chemistry World November 9, 2015 Emma Stoye	UK science's 'superpower' status at risk The UK government must commit to spend more on science R&D in the long-term if the UK is to remain a 'scientific superpower', according to a report published by the House of Commons