The Academy of Medical Sciences, the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society have jointly submitted a contribution to the .
The academies support the Government’s efforts to develop a strategy to shape the future of UK research up to 2020 and beyond, and recommend that the strategy should:
- Provide a flexible long-term framework that enables the UK to collaborate and compete internationally by supporting a broad research base across all disciplines. This should sit at the heart of Government’s industrial strategy and plans for growth.
- Be broad in scope to encompass the UK’s richly diverse and integrated research and innovation system, including Government, industry, charities and other organisations nationally and internationally.
- Place excellence at the heart of decision making about research investment.
- Be ambitious in its vision and deliver effective results.
91TV has also submitted an additional letter highlighting the main messages from its recent report Vision for science and mathematics education.