How to Do More with Less

Following Vince Cable's call to 'do more with less', William Culerne Brown in Research Fortnight has come up with ten ideas. These include:

• ditching the 'open access' agenda;
• ditching the public engagement agenda;
• canceling the research outcomes system, currently under development by RCUK;
• simplifying and standardising contracts, to cut down on the time spent negotiating them;
• simplifying grant proposals, especially in the minutiae of costing;
• repealing the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004, which he sees as much too complex and burdensome;
• ditching the REF, and transfer QR to RCUK;
  

Controversial, but invigorating stuff! For the full list, and more justification of each idea, go to the main article here.