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Venezuelan Higher Education

HESA

Institutionally, there has been furious controversy as the government has tried to reduce institutional autonomy and control institutions directly through political means. Universities – and their students – have as a result become one of the government’s biggest institutional barriers to one-party absolutism.

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The high cost of funded research in colleges and universities

Changing Higher Education

HERD data instructions are clear:”R&D does not include unrecovered indirect costs that exceed your institution’s federally negotiated Facilities and Administration (F&A) rate”. Whatever the value of institutional Direct Funding of R&D, it is obviously the driver of the rapidly growing overall cost of Institutional R&D.

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Cost allocation in the research university and what it tells us

Changing Higher Education

Allowing university administrators to follow their own priorities in cost shifting and cost sharing between activities such as research and teaching has resulted in an enormously successful university research enterprise, and a highly respected educational system. The current system, which demands large annual real cost increases, is broken.

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