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Nature 441, 690 (8 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/441690a; Published online 7 June 2006
Funding: income criterion would hit postdoc careers
Phil Bland1
- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
I was surprised to read your Editorial "Brown's budget briefing" (Nature 440, 581; 2006), backing the UK government's recent suggestion that external research income should replace much of the current Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). An obvious problem with this proposal is that the RAE affects not only the funding of individual departments, but their hiring and firing policy too.
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