Vitae, the embattled UK organisation responsible for professionalising research, has been given two years of “transition funding” from Research Councils UK and the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
The news on 30 May follows an announcement in April 2011 that Vitae’s existing contract would not be renewed beyond December 2012. Vitae will now receive between £2.5 million and £3m until March 2015, its director Ellen Pearce says.
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