From REVEL BARKER
‘Figures published this week show which universities earned most from
industry in 1992/3′ (This Week, 18 June). Not if you have reported them
accurately, they don’t.
They omit to mention Cranfield University, which would, on the figures
published, come second to London’s multi-college total, with Pounds sterling
10.61 million earned from industrial R&D in 1992/3. Cranfield’s industrial
income is equivalent to four times the amount it receives from research
councils.
Provided that no other high-earning university is omitted (shouldn’t
UMIST, Warwick and Heriot-Watt be in there, somewhere?) this makes Nottingham’s
£6.29m third, not second, and Cambridge’s £5.94m fourth, Oxford’s
£4.79m fifth, and so on.
Revel Barker Cranfield University Bedfordshire
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Andy Coghlan writes: Company Reporting, the consultancy that compiled
the UK R&D Scoreboard for the government, drew its university statistics
from the University Statistical Record, a document published annually by
the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (formerly UCCA). The USR
only included data on the ‘old’ universities funded by the now-defunct Universities
Funding Council. ‘New’ universities such as Cranfield will be included for
the first time in data for the year 1994-5, when the USR is taken over
by a new body called the Higher Education Statistics Agency.
