At the third economic summit, the Secretary of State for Wales stated that
"Wales had to prepare to a future upturn in the economy in terms of research, development, training and skills",
Ironic, therefore, that when the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) announce £250 million of funding for 44 Ph.D training centres in science and engineering, NOT ONE OF THESE WILL BE BASED IN WALES.
Certainly, I would expect him to ask the Minister for Science why this is the case as, under the normal Barnett rules, at least £12.5 million should have come to Wales.
Is there any wonder, as a recent report stated, that Welsh universities are underfunded when the none of the additional science funding made available by the UK Government comes to Wales.
I would sincerely hope that one of our MPs - perhaps the Secretary of State himself - will ask why Wales keeps losing out in this way?
"Wales had to prepare to a future upturn in the economy in terms of research, development, training and skills",
Ironic, therefore, that when the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) announce £250 million of funding for 44 Ph.D training centres in science and engineering, NOT ONE OF THESE WILL BE BASED IN WALES.
Certainly, I would expect him to ask the Minister for Science why this is the case as, under the normal Barnett rules, at least £12.5 million should have come to Wales.
Is there any wonder, as a recent report stated, that Welsh universities are underfunded when the none of the additional science funding made available by the UK Government comes to Wales.
I would sincerely hope that one of our MPs - perhaps the Secretary of State himself - will ask why Wales keeps losing out in this way?
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Im a Welsh Voter Get me Out of Here !!!
not a good move for Wales and "our" knowledge economy..
if RAE is poor in Wales then it will be a disaster for each of the traditionals who have gone to such an effort to score high - but so has the rest of the uk!
Cardiff and swansea in particular must be scathing to have missed out - swansea for its hi technology work in particular
But saying all that there are many big hitters not to feature too - liverpool, glasgow, aberdeen's oil & gas centre, open, durham's solar work etc
i wonder what harm this will do - or is that the intention? specialisations directed via central governmental agencies - but at what cost to the rest?
dependence on overseas PhDs will now be huge for some....