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Cost allocation in the research university and what it tells us

Changing Higher Education

Thus, one part of the difficulty of defining educational costs is the interlocking business models that lead to individuals and facilities being used in multiple activities. In the university case, faculty perform multiple functions, as do facilities such as classrooms, labs, and libraries. among the functions.

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The high cost of funded research in colleges and universities

Changing Higher Education

HERD data instructions are clear:”R&D does not include unrecovered indirect costs that exceed your institution’s federally negotiated Facilities and Administration (F&A) rate”. Whatever the value of institutional Direct Funding of R&D, it is obviously the driver of the rapidly growing overall cost of Institutional R&D.

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Strengthening data and insights into our changing university research landscape by Jessica Corner

HEPI

Our ongoing programme to review the principles underpinning our funding and mechanisms by which we allocate research funds to institutions has reached a point where we are seeking to increase the visibility and transparency of how these funds are deployed by institutions.