Update: the fix and gameplay balance improvement to the University Research will be available in the next major update v5.7.00, which is scheduled for release in this month.

I have forwarded it to the programmer and he has started looking into it.

Hi David,
Here's another old bug. University Research Focus for Technology simply does not work in vanilla. Here's what I see
1. When picking up some software technology, it just picks the rating number from previous research.
2. It never changes. I have tested it for several months and it just don't change at all.
3. It does not apply to your existing software research in the city.

So my question is: does it work? If yes, how?