Task 3
For
questions 1-21, read the text below and look carefully at each line.
Some of the lines are correct and some have a word which should not be there.
If a line is correct, put a tick
(+) by the number in the answer boxes provided. If a line
has a word which should not be there, write the word in the answer boxes
provided.
CUT DOWN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
FUNDING
1.
The higher education funding councils were being keen to stress the
spread and
2.
depth of research quality across the most entire sector while
unveiling the results
3.
of the assessment at the beginning of the 2000s. Approximately a
hundred of
4.
institutions could boast at least one group of researchers graded 5 –
a sign of
5.
international standing in the exercise. And still these data were hold
back a harsh
6.
reality. Lacking is the funds even to maintain grants to departments
securing the
7.
top three grades in the assessment, the funding councils have been
forced to skew
8.
funds even much more dramatically to the elite international research
units. Over
9.
four-fifths of the English funding council’s £840m grant will go to
departments
10.
with world-class 5 and 5* ratings, the two top grades out of seven
rankings in the
11.
assessment. Even so, those rated 5 will face to large cuts. Only 14%
is being
12.
distributed to
departments have rated 4 and a tiny 2% will go to departments
13.
graded 3a, that existing mainly in the former polytechnics. On
average,
14.
5* departments will see a 2.5% increase in cash for the next academic
year,
15.
5-rated departments will see a 15% cut, and 4-rated departments will
see a 30%
16.
cut. If these funding decisions were being applied without any other
controls,
17.
only the very
best academics would be left enough unscathed. Imperial College,
18.
Cambridge University, Oxford University, and the London School of
Economics
19.
are the only large institutions with at least a half of their
researchers in
20.
top-graded 5-star departments. For the rest of the other sector,
however, there is
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such the prospect of dwindling RAE returns.