2009 News
- News Archive
Boost for Research Funding
St Mary’s University College, Twickenham today reacted “with delight” to today’s news that its HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) research funding grant is to increase by 269% next year.
The news recognises the ongoing implementation of a successful strategy adopted by the University College over several years to raise its research portfolio in a wide range of key subject areas.
It also follows the published Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) at the end of last year which underlined the University College’s level of maturity across a wide range of research activity, including international recognition of four schools that submitted research outputs to the RAE.
The national average increase in research funding grants is 7.8%.
“Of course we are delighted. It is a vindication of the hard work put in by many members of staff towards ensuring quality and diversity across our research programmes,” said Dr Mary Eaton, Vice-Principal (pictured) today.
She added: “We are now focused on attaining research degree awarding powers.”
St Mary’s will also receive a 5.4% increase in recurrent funding across the board (the national average being 4.1%).
The University College already has taught degree awarding powers and sees the funding increase announced today as another positive step along the road to securing research degree awarding powers.
