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Fewer academics could be the answer to insufficient grants -- Nature Andrew Doig 453, 978 (2008)

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Fewer academics could be the answer to insufficient grants

da Nature di Andrew Doig

Fewer academics could be the answer to insufficient grants

Nature 453, 978 (2008). doi:10.1038/453978a

Author: Andrew Doig

SirThe rejection of high-quality grant proposals is a problem
endemic to universities throughout the world. I suggest that it arises
from separating the employment of academics from the central bodies who
provide grant funding.Consider the country of Euphoria. It has just
four universities,...