Someone in the know, who needs to remain anonymous, has been in touch to challenge my criticism of the amount going to research in the FCDO budget. They say :
“Research budget growth decisions were made all the way back in 2009-11 really; it takes so long to get programmes procured and live and then spending (which is never in the first year or even second year of a research programme). Even so, the research budget for education has been cut. We weren’t fighting for education attention against any other education budget – we had a 3% protected spend for the research department, and so went up against research funding for health / agriculture / governance etc. The hope was to generate research of a calibre that stopped ministers/spads questioning the viability of education spend because the evidence was seen as so weak (the Best Buys series didn’t help with that) – but the budget decisions weren’t related in process, nor in strategy.”.
If you have a view on this, but need to remain anonymous – get in touch by email at andybrockeducation@gmail.com and I will post your comment like this one.
Someone in the know, who needs to remain anonymous, has been in touch to challenge my criticism of the amount going to research in the FCDO budget. They say :
“Research budget growth decisions were made all the way back in 2009-11 really; it takes so long to get programmes procured and live and then spending (which is never in the first year or even second year of a research programme). Even so, the research budget for education has been cut. We weren’t fighting for education attention against any other education budget – we had a 3% protected spend for the research department, and so went up against research funding for health / agriculture / governance etc. The hope was to generate research of a calibre that stopped ministers/spads questioning the viability of education spend because the evidence was seen as so weak (the Best Buys series didn’t help with that) – but the budget decisions weren’t related in process, nor in strategy.”.
If you have a view on this, but need to remain anonymous – get in touch by email at andybrockeducation@gmail.com and I will post your comment like this one.