Universities in Wales are lagging behind those in the rest of the UK in terms of research funding and it’s time the gap was plugged, according to one of the nation’s best-known academics.
Professor Richard Wyn Jones, who heads the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University, said it was “disastrous” that the Welsh Government had apparently abandoned its intention to follow the recommendations of the 2018 Reid Review and increase research funding.
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