Govt move a loss for Lincoln College
The move to make Government departments pay their own way means that Lincoln College will lose a lot of funding next year.
The Director-General of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Mr Malcolm Cameron, told the College Council yesterday that the Ministry might, have no option but to stop funding research projects next year.
Mr Cameron said the Ministry’s funding would decrease , progressively during the next five years. If it could not find private sponsors to fund research it would have ho option but to cut its operations.
The amount of research contract funding varied from year to year, Mr Cameron said. In March this year the Ministry took out two contracts with Lincoln College worth
$34,700. It took out another two worth $5700 in April.
Mr Cameron said that if the Ministry decided it could not continue funding next year, it might have to stop funding some projects this year. They would not be far enough advanced by the end of the year to be of any use, and so there would be no point in continuing funding this year.
Another Government department, the D.5.1.R., has also Informed the college of a cut in funding. The D.S.I.R. has been funding a supervisor’s salary at the college’s agricultural economics research unit for more than 20 years, worth $42,500 this year. But the council received a letter yesterday saying the D.S.I.R. could not continue
funding after this year. The college’s principal, Professor Bruce Ross, said the position was an important one. The supervisor did not do any specific research projects, and was able to supervise the junior staff working on specific projects. Professor Ross said the college was looking at setting up another management structure for the unit, so that a paid supervisor would not be needed. One possibility was that senior academic staff could oversee particular projects, but many academic staff already had high workloads.
The cut in D.S.I.R. funding would not directly affect any research contracts, he said.
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