The Minister for Lifelong Learning and Higher Education, Margaret Hodge, has announced a review of public funding of higher education research in the arts and humanities, to consider how the achievements of the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), established in 1998, can be sustained.
It will also assess how the mechanisms to support arts and humanities research in the higher education sector can be further developed, aiming to ensure that humanities and arts researchers can "make the fullest possible contribution to the UK's intellectual, social, cultural and economic development." AHRB was set up as an interim transitional body, pending a decision from Government on the recommendation in the Dearing Report in July 1997 to establish an Arts and Humanities Research Council alongside the six research councils that report to the Office of Science and Technology. The review will address this, and other key issues relating to the infrastructure for the support and promotion of research throughout the UK.
Published: 08-10-2001