Former universities and science minister says tuition fee freeze is harming R&D
The UK government is effectively cutting research funding by failing to facilitate sufficient cash for domestic students, a former universities and science minister has claimed.
Writing for the right-leaning Policy Exchange think tank, David Willetts—now a Conservative member of the House of Lords—said that while tuition fees for overseas students were cross-subsidising R&D activities in universities, the stagnation of domestic fees was holding research back.
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