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If we’re bailing out companies, let’s make them work for us
You want public money, you act in the public interest.
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Science spending fell 7.6% in 2010/11, plunging UK further down the league table
Science spending has fallen even faster than expected, with individual departmental spends down 7.6% in the first year of the parliament.
We need a Teach First scheme for frontline children’s social work
Josh MacAlister, a teacher, a researcher at IPPR and a Teach First ambassador; argues for a Teach First scheme for children's social work.
Telegraph reports anti-renewable energy research, doesn’t mention dirty energy backing
Today’s Daily Telegraph reports research attacking renewable energy - but fails to say the research was commissioned by Calor Gas.
Coalition should heed Obama’s advice on higher education – not slash teaching grants
In his State of the Union address last night, President Obama made a strong defence of the importance of higher education, writes Sally Hunt.
Government funding of university research at lowest proportion since 1900s
Annual public spending on university teaching and research in England will fall to its lowest proportion in over a century.