We hear from competing voices on Aria, while Hepi tackles university admissions
Yesterday was just another ordinary day in the world of higher education and research as the Aria soap opera reached its latest cliffhanger. Speaking almost simultaneously in different venues, science minister Amanda Solloway and the prime minister’s former senior adviser Dominic Cummings both had their say on the future of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency.
Mico Tatalovic and Sophie Inge bring us news of Solloway’s speech at the British Science Association and Cummings’s evidence to the House of Commons science and technology committee. At the end of it all, we know some more about what Cummings thinks of civil servants and vice-chancellors, but not much more about what Aria is actually going to do.