“UK physics chief next for the chop in funding bloodbath?”

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Van het online IT-magazine “The Register”:

Professor Keith Mason, the man in charge of scything £80m from the UK’s physics research budget, has been sharply criticised by MPs investigating cutbacks which have forced job losses in labs and threaten to shut down many projects.
The Commons select committee on innovation, universities, science and skills said in its report yesterday on the physics budgetary crisis that the explanation Mason gave for his decision to make cuts to ground-based solar-terrestrial physics (STP) was “inaccurate, unconvincing and unacceptable”. The famous radio telescope at Jodrell Bank is one of the facilities threatened by STP cutbacks.

Mason is now under pressure to quit as chief executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) over his handling of the affair. The committee charged: “We are at a loss to understand how Professor Mason could think that secretive reviews would have anything other than a divisive effect on the community and undermine confidence in any of his future decisions.”

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