Archive for February, 2008
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
NOW that most of the old manufacturing industries have bitten the dust, the knowledge economy has become all-important.
That is as true of the north-west region as it is of any other, which is why the current savage funding cuts at the Daresbury research campus, near Warrington, are so serious.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The Liverpool Daily Post exposes the secret plan to close Daresbury here.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The UK has now been restored as a full Gemini partner. See here.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Cockcroft Institute Director, Swapan Chattopadhyay gave an impassioned exposition of the science under threat at Daresbury at the Commons Select Committee hearing yesterday. Swapan said that, "STFC's peer review process was fundamentally flawed". Richard Holdaway, Director of Space Science at RAL said, "the cuts are not compatible with encouraging young ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
A report on yesterday's Select Committee evidence session from the Guardian is here
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Transcript is now available here.
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Background on the upcoming evidence session from Research Fortnight. Link courtesy Particle Physics Campaign.
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
The director of the Cockcroft Institute for Accelerator Science, based at Daresbury Lab, has been selected to give evidence in the latest hearing of the Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Select Committee. See here.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
This article asks what planet STFC are on.
"While Apollo did undoubtedly catalyse some into pursuing the sciences, it also produced a far less welcome generation of ageing fanatics who feel robbed of their holidays on the Moon. They now seem intent on usurping what remains of the UK's science funding ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
In this article on the RAS statement asks the following.
The RAS statement came on the same day as a proposal by the UK government, the STFC and other partners to build a new space facility at Harwell, Oxfordshire, and a review into sending a British astronaut into space. Andrew Kavanagh, ...
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