Why does the BBSRC not follow up the success/otherwise of studentships with their recipients rather than HoDs / grantholders?

and

Why does BBRSC allow its funds to be used to pay Cambridge College fees & accept college (non-academic) vetos over degree awards?

My tweets were ignored for a few days and I contemplated Tweeting my MP @JulianHuppert and asking him to RT my questions (in the same way as historically MPs have forwarded correspondence to public officials which their constituents have found to be uncommunicative when corresponding directly). I instead tweeted:

Looks like @BBSRC CEO @dbkell is ignoring my tweeted questions. Fustrating as small tweaks could save millons and benefit society.

This appeared to do the trick as I recieved a response from @DBKell:

@rtayloruk questions do not appear in my twitter inbox, but the answers to yours will be in next week’s blog at http://blogs.bbsrc.ac.uk

As I suspected he hasn’t yet found his /replies and as he doesn’t follow me of course my questions don’t appear on his twitter feed.

I really hope that either I will learn that a lot has changed in the last couple of years; or that I have been able to prompt the BBSRC CEO into at least considering the value of listening to the experiences of those receiving research studentships and acting to eliminate the problems they have encountered.

I hope he doesn’t write to say that the research councils’ work for the universities and have no influence over them; but if he does that will be a clear statement to lobby against.