Research is Great, but investment is declining
BIS says that the UK is an international bastion of highly efficient science, but new ONS statistics find that UK investment in research fell in 2011–12.
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Government departments slash research
The government is under renewed pressure over its swingeing cuts to research, with departments such as Education cutting research budgets by over 50%.
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Science may suffer from departmental budget mistake
A leaked memo from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills reveals a £1.4bn budget shortfall and threatens the ringfenced science budget with cuts.
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R&D funding select committee submission
The Scienceogram submission to the Commons Science and Technology Committee inquiry into UK research and development funding for science and technology.
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Science and UK Spending Review 2013
How has George Osborne’s 2013 Spending Review affected the UK science budget? We look at what the Chancellor’s announcements mean for science.
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Willetts at Cheltenham on science funding
The ‘Science, the Economy and You’ panel discussion at Cheltenham Science Festival 2013, with UK science minister David Willetts and Jim Al-Khalili.
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UK science budget 2010–2015: what’s changed?
After yesterday’s Budget, we try to make sense of the UK science budget since 2010. Have George Osborne and the Coalition been cruel or kind to science?