Well they get funding from govt agencies, sometimes from industry, but I would imagine a lot of it has to come from their own pockets. After all if you are awarding research grants, and one is for £15k for a postdoc for a year, and the other is £15k plus £1.5m for a particle accelerator, which one would you be most likely to approve? 🙂
I can see how uni's are more expensive to run than schools but not too the magnitude that the difference in funding suggests
So why are they running out of money then? It's not going on champagne lunches that's for sure 🙂
I can see how uni's are more expensive to run than schools but not too the magnitude that the difference in funding suggests.
Well they actually allow people to do science etc instead of just talking about it. The consumables cost for some courses is going to be way higher than anything in a school. Where as most of the cost of running a school is in wages, I suspect a university has significant other costs.
The school where my wifes works does not allow teachers to do photo copying FFS !!!
I suspect a university has significant other costs.
Agree, however Universitys are getting more and more funding from companies looking to get research work done for them. The funding for this is usually considerable and definitly subsidises a lot of departments.
The Mat Eng department at my Uni, Swansea, got huge amounts of money from industry as it had loads of specialist kit. All the lecturers had M5s and other flashy cars - some were making a killing from it all!
