Q: How do you get "growth" without innovation, and how do you get innovation without funding public research?
A: You don't. The UK has the worst public funding for uni + skills in the OECD, pay for starting lecturers down 25% since 2010, and that's why we are losing to countries abroad.
Ewan McGaughey
Breaking: Government set to cut strategic priorities grant.
The government is on the cusp of cutting public funding for higher education teaching, the head of Universities UK has told MPs, placing institutions under even more financial pressure.
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Vivienne Stern says letter confirming cut to teaching funds will be sent out “in days”
