Head of universities body says changes could cost the sector £1bn and 18,000 full-time jobs
British universities have made an urgent plea to Boris Johnson to intervene and stop threats of steep research funding cuts from the Treasury, which would cost the sector £1bn and imperil thousands of jobs.
Prof Julia Buckingham, the president of Universities UK (UUK) which represents university leaders, said in a letter to Johnson that her members were “increasingly alarmed by reports that the Treasury has not made funding available to support the UK’s association to Horizon Europe,” the European Union’s funding programme for research and innovation.
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