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2 As we mull over the results of the Research Excellence Framework which will determine how HEFCE’s Quality-Related research fund will be allocated, we were all keen to hear what the Chancellor had to say about the Science Budget in his Autumn Statement at the beginning of this month. There were some clues as to the priorities for the £1.1bn pa capital committed to science for the next five years in announcements about new research facilities, many of which will be located in the north of England reflecting the Government’s stated aspiration to rebalance the economy. But the Statement also confirmed the Chancellor’s plans to turn a surplus on the Government’s accounts by 2019 mainly through further public spending cuts. No detailed budgets for Government departments from 2016 have yet been published, and, according to an article in Research Fortnight on 12 th November, the Minister for Universities, Science and Cities, Greg Clark, has declined to commit the next Conservative Government to increasing the science budget or indeed to continue the 2010 ring fence. So there seems to be a general consensus emerging that existing plans mean cuts of around 30% to 40% everywhere apart from the NHS and schools. The Chancellor says that savings were made between 2010 and 2015 so it should be possible to make the same order of savings again, leading to energetic debate about whether this is actually possible... There was (ostensibly) better news on the subject of postgraduate loans, though. Postgraduate funding is an issue on which the Engineering Professors’ Council has been working hard to raise up the agenda, particularly through our work with BIS on the Perkins Task and Finish group on Specialist Skills through which we’ve also kept a close eye on progress with the HEFCE postgraduate funding pilot schemes for STEM subjects, the largest proportion of which were focused on engineering. The Chancellor announced that up to £10,000 would be made available for students under the age of 30, to fund postgraduate study in any subject. Decisions about the final details of the system will be informed by pilot schemes currently being funded by HEFCE and there will be a consultation before the final system is agreed, with a view to implementing it in time for the start of the 2016/17 academic year. The Treasury says it is assuming repayment at rates higher than for current undergraduate loans, but lower than the current commercially available loans to help ensure that the majority will be paid in full. Concerns have been raised, though, about the fact that the postgraduate loans are to be repaid “concurrently” with undergraduate loans (putting an age limit of 30 on them will have exacerbated that … ) leading the Institute for Fiscal Studies to warn that those taking out postgraduate loans could, in effect, face a marginal tax rate of 50% once income tax and National Insurance were included. We are planning to work with the Industry Strategy Councils to explore the possibility of obtaining industrial financial support for those studying postgraduate degrees in engineering subjects as the rate of unemployment is so much lower for engineering graduates compared with other disciplines that the risk of non-repayment is consequently lower and so could be supported by an interest rate subsidy, for example. Colleagues at Cranfield University have been piloting a loan scheme for postgraduate STEM students – and you can read about it in Annex G of the Perkins Review’s Progress Report: http://bit.ly/169HLQ1 . We’ll keep you up to date with any further progress. Chancellor’s Autumn Statement “…Britain is raising its ambition . And nowhere is that clearer than in our commitment to science. It is a personal priority of mine. Scientific advance is a human endeavour worthy of support in its own right. It is also crucial to our economic future..…” Perkins Review Engineering community commits to maintain the long-term work initiated by Perkins through the Engineering the Future consortium. EPC Past President Professor Helen Atkinson FREng and Executive Director Susan Kay joined an impressive group at Shell UK’s London headquarters on 3rd November, 2014 to launch Tomorrow’s Engineers week 2014. Erik Bonino, Chairman of Shell UK and Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, spoke passionately about the need to feed the pipeline of engineers to ensure we have sufficient to meet industry’s needs. They endorsed warmly the Review of Engineering Skills led by Professor John Perkins, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, who also attended to launch his Progress Report which has brought together an array of partners – professional engineering institutions, universities, schools, further education colleges and businesses – to address the need at every level from schools to postgraduate specialist skills. The Engineering Professors’ Council leads the work, on behalf of Education for Engineering, on postgraduate specialist skills. Professor Perkins’ progress report is available from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and a fuller account of the progress of the Perkins Task and Finish Groups is available from Education for Engineering.
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