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UK Physics Funding under pressure
Bad news for physics funding in the UK yesterday as the Science and Technology Facilities Council had its budget slashed by the somewhat bizarre-sounding Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. Due to higher than planned operating costs and a frozen budget, money is being redirected from other projects to cover this shortfall. As a result, the UK has backed out of funding the ILC, which was announced in 2 curt sentences, as follows:
"We will cease investment in the International Linear Collider. We do not see a practicable path towards the realisation of this facility as currently conceived on a reasonable timescale."
Much more on this story below:
UK Physics Investment Decimated
UK Physics on the chopping block
Ministers review physics funding - including a quote from PMC Physics A ed board memeber, Brian Cox.
Boffins slashed in big-science budget blunder bloodbath - comments are also worth reading.
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