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A group of 16 learned societies has made a joint appeal to the United Kingdom Government in an attempt to get it to reverse its plans for greater research selectivity for universities. The move, in the form of a letter to higher education minister Alan Johnson, cam as an unprecedented range of organisations lined up to attack the government's efforts to steer some universities away from research. Students, trade unions and vice-chancellors are all opposed to the government's plans, and they have been joined in their protests by opposition political parties and the Commons select committee on education and skills.
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The Government has broken a promise to give the UK's post-92 universities the lion's share of funding for knowledge-transfer work and applied research, according to Michael Driscoll, chairman of Campaigning for Mainstream Universities, the body that represents new institutions. Provisional figures outlining the allocation of the latest round of the UKPd238 million Higher Education Innovation Fund in 2006-2008 reveal that the highest levels of funding will be received by old universities, which will receive up to UKPd3 million each.
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A working group chaired by Sir Alan Wilson, the Government's director-general of higher education, has raised concerns that allowing students to apply for university places after they have received their A-level results could pose practical problems for university admissions tutors and actually make life more difficult for the most disadvantaged applicants. Others note that experts have been advocating a post-qualification system for several years and that it is now time to devise a workable system.
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