Two subsequent research assessments were conducted in 1989 and 1992 under the name "research selectivity exercise" by the Universities Funding Council.
This comes from the Funding Council and not out of individual student's DSA.
The universities are also experiencing much more direct government intervention, now to be exerted through the Universities Funding Council.
Doubts are being expressed about whether its successor, the Universities Funding Council, will do this.
Rather it is the new job that it gives to the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
The University Grants Committee gave way to the Funding Council.
The Universities Funding Council is resisting recognition of civil service unions.
The quality of the teaching received by social work students was also given the highest possible ranking by the Funding Council.
Funding is allocated once every term by the Funding Council consisting entirely of students.
These plans had to be endorsed by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales.