Grant income targets set at one in six universities, THE poll suggests

FoI request reveals which institutions have targets of some sort after the suicide last year of a professor at Imperial College London

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June 11, 2015
Last updated
June 11, 2015
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Better together: one academic at Sheffield suggested that 'aspirational targets' were productive at a departmental level but that individual targets were less effective

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Article originally published as: Grant goals set for staff at one in six campuses (11 June 2015)

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Clarification: this article identifies Abertay University as one of 11 institutions that set ‘grant-winning goals’ for individual academics. In fact, while submitting grant applications and raising research income are part of the academic role at Abertay and are considered in annual appraisal meetings, we do not set individual ‘grant-winning goals’ for research income. We acknowledge that our response to your FOI enquiry wasn’t sufficiently clear about this. Kevin Coe Director of Communications Abertay University
Once again King's College London shows itself to be run by people with an exaggerated view of their own infallibility, and absolutely no sense of a public sphere to which they could contribute.
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