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purplecthulhu at 02:18pm on 08/02/2008
purplecthulhu at 02:18pm on 08/02/2008Those of you who signed the No. 10 petition about physics funding will have received an email from out esteemed prime minister. This links to a release from STFC that is largely content free and a restatement of the current situation. Indeed it is in fact rather out of date as it fails to mention the Gemini situation.
There's is also a bit of creative accounting at the end that suggests that the 25% cut to grant funding will produce only a 10% cut to the numbers of postdocs. This is being described as spin by some who've gone through the figures. Why am I not surprised?
The petition is now the 11th largest at over 16000 signatures. If you've not signed please do so now so that at least we can say that the government is ignoring the views of its citizens that funding levels should be restored.
There's is also a bit of creative accounting at the end that suggests that the 25% cut to grant funding will produce only a 10% cut to the numbers of postdocs. This is being described as spin by some who've gone through the figures. Why am I not surprised?
The petition is now the 11th largest at over 16000 signatures. If you've not signed please do so now so that at least we can say that the government is ignoring the views of its citizens that funding levels should be restored.
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