"Universities will have to show that their research influences the
economy, public policy or society"
Just another hoop to jump through for us trained seals. Really, this
whole measure is just pointless - how hard will it be to prove that a
person's work doesn't affect one of those in some way? That's
already the case for the big grants, as far I've seen, so this is
just a false flag news story to distract us from MPs and their
expense accounts popping up all over like mushrooms after a rainy day
(still). It has the look of a story that they think will make them
look fiscally responsible in the face of whacky, left-wing, cash-
throwing academics, who live to do irrelevant studies wasting
taxpayer money on bird-shit and how it relates to gender politics*,
unlike those MPs who would _never_ misspend hard-earned tax dollars
on anything but DVDs of themselves discussing how not to misspend
taxpayer money**
Cynically yours,
Evan
* I made this bit up
** I didn't make this bit up
On Oct 15, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Julian Rohrhuber wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/sep/23/panel-funding-
> university-research
>
Received on Mon Oct 19 2009 - 14:39:19 BST