Researchers 'over a barrel' after coalition threat to cut £100m grant from Arts and Humanities Research CouncilAcademics will study the "big society" as a precedence,following a deal with the government to secure funding from cuts.
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) will spend a "meaningful" amount of its funding on the prime minister's vision for the country, after a government "clarification" of the Haldane principle – a convention that for 90 years has protected the apt of academics to settle where research funds should be spent.
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Source: theguardian.com