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Call to boost scientific research

2008-04-30
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The economy is being threatened by the funding crisis affecting scientific research, union officials have warned the Government.

The economy is being threatened by the funding crisis affecting scientific research, union officials have warned the Government.

The TUC urged ministers to make up an estimated £80 million shortfall so that important science projects could be protected and physicists and chemists could be dissuaded from taking their skills to other countries.

The union organisation also demanded that special summits be held across the UK to increase public understanding of the work of scientists.

Too many students drop science as a subject as soon as they are able, while many schools struggle to recruit science teachers, the TUC warned.

General secretary Brendan Barber said: "The UK has a fantastic record on science but our researchers need state-of-the-art facilities at their disposal and research institutes need a highly-skilled pool of scientists to recruit from.

"The Government needs to make up the £80 million shortfall or many world-beating science projects may close and their scientists leave to work elsewhere."

Copyright © The Press Association 2008


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