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Fusterclucking in Parliament

posted by [personal profile] purplecthulhu at 01:51pm on 26/01/2008
Sings of a fightback by MPs? The IUS subcommittee has book science back on its agenda. Quite what this means is unclear, but it's surely a step in the right direction even if it's a small step.
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posted by [identity profile] m31andy.livejournal.com at 02:07pm on 26/01/2008
Huh. That's an incredible u-turn. Considering.
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 05:28pm on 26/01/2008
They probably have realized that more scrutiny is needed in this area. Given what's happened of late I'd say a lot more, but I'm afraid it won't make the lives of people in DIUS any easier...
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posted by [identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com at 02:18pm on 26/01/2008
YAY!
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 05:29pm on 26/01/2008
We have to see what they do first...
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posted by [identity profile] celestialweasel.livejournal.com at 02:39pm on 26/01/2008
Bring back the DSIR, I say.
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 05:29pm on 26/01/2008
DSIR... Department of Science Innovation and Research perhaps?????
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posted by [identity profile] celestialweasel.livejournal.com at 08:28pm on 26/01/2008
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Existed from 1917 to 1965, when it was folded into the Ministry of Technology by the Wilson government.
Set up, fundamentally, because of concerns about Britain's industrial and scientific decline (yes, it was a concern even then - in 1870 the UK had the highest per capita GDP in the world, by the start of WWI it had been passed by the USA and Germany).
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posted by [personal profile] kriste at 06:26pm on 26/01/2008
well the first article I saw this evening was:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7210342.stm

which sounded less promising.

Otoh, we had already decided on a trip to Jodrell bank tomorrow :)

. o O (if london weren't so far I'd have suggested you join us ...)
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 07:23pm on 26/01/2008
Yes - I heard about that on Wednesday, and there are some other big cuts coming, including some at Jodrell, as far as I understand. See my possibly gnomic comments here on that day.

This is all the result of the cuts with the most recent CSR. By making a big noise about it we hopefully will stave off more cuts at the next CSR, but this is a cultural shift from central government with the move to the more dour and, frankly, low brow Brown. If it can't make money in the next few years it would seem he doesn't want it.

So prepare for more cuts, more centrist dirigism and more reductions in student numbers on science courses since short term money-making projects don't, by and large, enthuse school kids.
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