Science funding crisis

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• The King's College London scientist purge: what message does it send?

  9 Jul 2014: Jenny Rohn: What message does sacking a crippling number of researchers send at a time when science is needed more than ever?

• Big picture science: who decides?

  11 Jun 2014: Jenny Rohn: The government wants input on how to spend the capital budget. But how easy is it to back a winner?

• Ships before seeds? Kew, Arctic research and UK science funding

  25 Apr 2014: Alice Bell: As a £200m polar research ship and cuts at Kew Gardens make headlines in the same day, we should ask questions about the politics governing science funding decisions.
  

• Scientists, unions and greens unite in concern over Kew Gardens cuts

  11 Apr 2014: Cuts to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew risk the loss of 125 jobs, many in science and public engagement.

• Science funding must be at the heart of the UK's economic strategy

  1 Mar 2014:

  Paul Nurse: Britain is in a global race for science investment and we can't afford to slip behind

• British technology's uncertain future

  8 Dec 2013: Letters: It is no surprise that British companies are being outpaced in the global commercialisation of graphene and other high technologies

• No need to be so gloomy about graphene

  4 Dec 2013: Letters: The new, state-of-the-art £61m National Graphene Institute at Manchester University has been specifically designed to encourage innovation

• How UK wonder substance graphene can't and won't benefit UK

  3 Dec 2013:

  Once a research-rich economy the UK has fallen behind in innovation with UK firms allegedly either incapable or unwilling to exploit inventions

• UK science is under threat - from English higher education policy

  28 Nov 2013: The UK science base must be protected from poorly thought out and badly implemented English higher education reforms

• Fantastical science under threat as top-secret OZMAT lab faces closure

  28 Nov 2013: Office of Zoological Mutations, Anomalies and Transformations (OZMAT) has been responsible for countless scientific breakthroughs but could now be axed due to budget constraints

• Brian Cox attacks 'nonsensical' plans to cut science funding and student grants

  27 Nov 2013: Science broadcaster criticises proposals to slash science funding by £215m and convert £350m of grants into loans

• Looming cuts to science and students

  23 Nov 2013:

  Jon Butterworth: Haven't we been here before? Of course we have, and we will be here again

• Crowdfunding science: could it work?

  11 Nov 2013:

  Crowdfunding has energised public and private sectors, says Didier Schmitt – could it reconnect science and society too?

• XPRIZE dives into Earth's final frontier – our oceans and their future health

  22 Oct 2013:

  Scientific funding foundation launches new prizes for research into acidification, climate change, garbage and other issues

• Research finds 'US effect' exaggerates results in human behaviour studies

  26 Aug 2013:

  Alok Jha: Pressure on scientists to come up with exciting results could soon spread to other developed countries, researchers warn

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