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State governments continually cut budget support for tertiary education in the name of fiscal responsibility, so unfortunately many no longer have the means to
by bobthepanda 4y ago
State governments continually cut budget support for tertiary education in the name of fiscal responsibility, so unfortunately many no longer have the means to do so.
- eru 4y agoCutting budgets for education might even be the right thing to do. But that doesn't necessarily have much to do with research, or at least it shouldn't.
- bobthepanda 4y agoAs we saw with newsrooms, when faced with existential crises, even the most traditional firewalls will get scrapped in the race to find nickels in couch cushions.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoI don't see how this line of thinking makes sense. Where do you believe research funds come from?
- eru 4y agoMy comment was more normative than descriptive: I am saying that research budgets and educations budgets shouldn't be intermingled. (And more generally, that research and education institutions shouldn't be intermingled by default either.) If they were separate institutions, then cutting funding for one doesn't would not impact the other.