Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
A housing market with bits tacked on doesn’t need many (if any) pure scientists
Morena. Long stories short in Aotearoa’s political economy for Thursday, December 5:
* The Government halved spending on ‘blue-sky’ research by completely removing social sciences and humanities funding, arguing only research in physics, chemistry, maths, engineering and biomedical sciences would help the economy.
* The latest Government spending cuts take the numbers of Government-funded science job losses to well over 500 this year, adding to the over 200 residents who emigrate each day to other OECD countries, where the average for Research & Development spending of around 3% of GDP is…
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