UK Science Research Institutions looking at deep budget cuts

            According to BBC News, UK science funding bodies will have to absorb cuts of 41% to their budgets. These cuts will effect money spent on building, maintenance, or equipment. The budget cuts are seen as a way of increasing efficiency, prioritizing, and reforming how institutions conduct research in order to decrease capital investment and increase investment in research projects and researchers. International collaborations such as CERN and the European Southern Observatory are exempt as well as several Medical Research projects. However, this means that funds which would usually be employed in researchers and their research projects must be allocated towards building, maintenance, and equipment costs according to Imran Khan (Director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering- CASE).