The Australian federal mid-year mini-budget was released this morning. The ARC pause on funding has been released and the Linkage program opened for applications. However, the SRE component "research quantum" will be cut relative to a projected inscrease as will so called facilitation funds. The research quantum are government funds for research provided to the universities partly based on their research performance that are similar to the overhead component in US grants. When you submit a grant application to the ARC here in Australia you do not include overheads in your proposal. This doesn't mean that the university doesn't earn overhead on successful grants. It's just done indirectly with a time lag. This is somewhat good news as the cuts are smaller than rumored and don't affect individuals applying for grants.
In total these cuts are estimated to cost ANU at least $3.4 million in 2013 and $8.1 million in 2014.
More from The Australian here.
In total these cuts are estimated to cost ANU at least $3.4 million in 2013 and $8.1 million in 2014.
More from The Australian here.
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