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Radical changes afoot for peer review. (UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) (UK Science Policy)

Britain's old Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) has acquired a new name, a new mission -- to increase industrial competitiveness and enhance the quality of life -- and a new optimism. And its new management is engineering a radical reform of peer review.

The members of the new Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) have agreed 'in principle' to give full-time EPSRC personnel powers to approve research grant applications. The hoards of peer review committees and subcommittees, made up of academics and industrial scientists, will become merely advisory bodies: all part of the plan to hack away the old 'indisputably bureaucratic' structure to ...

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