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The baffling decision to defund a national academy for mathematics

3 October 2024

9:55 PM

3 October 2024

9:55 PM

The government has shocked the mathematics community by announcing that it is withdrawing £6 million in grant funding from a new Academy for Mathematical Sciences.

The impetus for creating this Academy came from a 2018 review chaired by professor Philip Bond. His review recommended how to maximize the benefits of mathematical sciences to the UK economy and to wider society.

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