Broken pledge betrays post-92s, Driscoll says

The Government has broken a promise to give the UK's post-92 universities the lion's share of funding for knowledge-transfer work and applied research, according to Michael Driscoll, chairman of Campaigning for Mainstream Universities, the body that represents new institutions. Provisional figures outlining the allocation of the latest round of the UKPd238 million Higher Education Innovation Fund in 2006-2008 reveal that the highest levels of funding will be received by old universities, which will receive up to UKPd3 million each.