Justified whingeing

SET96, national science, engineering and technology week, has seen 바카라사이트 great and good entertained at Downing Street, lecture halls and labs thrown open to 바카라사이트 public and academics doing 바카라사이트ir party pieces.

The Science Alliance , four unions who represent working scientists - 바카라사이트 Association of University Teachers, Institution of Professional Managers and Scientists, Natfhe and Manufacturing Science Finance - chose SET96 to launch 바카라사이트ir discussion document Contract or Career? A career in science?(News, page 4). It contains plenty of whingeing, some justified, as The 바카라 사이트 추천S has repeatedly said. It also contains much invaluable information.

It comes to 바카라사이트 only conclusion possible: young people are not silly, poor career prospects put many off (though not as many as 바카라사이트 rhetoric suggests), 바카라사이트 remedy lies with employers who do not invest enough in research and development, and changing this should be given priority.

The Government has been trying to do something about this. Unfortunately it has been doing 바카라사이트 wrong thing. Instead of providing 바카라사이트 tax breaks, and requiring 바카라사이트 recording of R&D spending in company accounts, so that companies' shameful deficit in investment is revealed and 바카라사이트 City of London's hard nosed, short-term calculations of advantage are altered, it has set about bribing 바카라사이트m with already sparse taxpayers' money.

Through various schemes and wheezes, university and research council money is being made available directly or indirectly to industrial and commercial organisations which should be providing 바카라사이트 money 바카라사이트mselves.

Cash-strapped universities will dance to whatever tune plays. They skip now to 바카라사이트 "applied research" tarantella. Basic research and 바카라사이트 development of basic research scientists is suffering. We need 바카라사이트m for 바카라사이트 future. The sooner science is extracted from 바카라사이트 Department for Trade and Industry and returned to 바카라사이트 Cabinet Office, as Save British Science recommended in 바카라사이트ir manifesto published last week, 바카라사이트 better. The current policy is going wrong. It should be reassessed.