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UKRI asks universities to choose which aid-funded grants to cut

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Vice-chancellors given option to terminate grants or keep projects running on smaller budgets

Universities have been asked to decide how to impose the recently revealed cuts to research funded through the UK’s aid budget across their research projects.

On 23 March, UK Research and Innovation wrote to university vice-chancellors detailing the reductions in funding from the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) at their institutions, compared with what the funder had initially committed to.

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