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Institute of Physics, November 11th, 2008

'Funding University Biosciences in the Post RAE-Era'

Supplementary notes for all talks

Professor Adrian Smith (Director General, Science and Research, DIUS) 'Setting the scene: The research councils, funding plans for Biosciences over the next years, RAE and the REF'

David Sweeney (Director, Research Innovation and Skills, HEFCE) 'The HEFCE perspective on RAE and REF, and the future of the quality-related element of HEFCE funding for research'

Professor Douglas Kell (Chief Executive, BBSRC) 'A research council perspective'

Nicola Perrin (Senior Policy Advisor, Wellcome Trust) 'A charity perspective'

'Costing the Biosciences': A report from Nigel Brown Associates on the HUBS funded exercise to assess the true cost of teaching biosciences in UK Higher Education. The full report will be publsihed early in 2009.