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Ten leading organisations from the UK higher education and research sector have joined forces to push for Open Access to research papers.

It's a 10% cut in real terms, but UK science wins the argument over its contribution to economic growth.

UK researchers are told they must “achieve more with less”, as the government confirms there will be big cuts to science in October’s government spending review.

The £3.5 billion a year currently spent on publicly-funded research generates an annual output of £45 billion in UK companies, according to a new report.

Redesigning PhD and masters programmes to attract the best researchers are at the centre of new proposals for maintaining the UK’s standing in scientific research.

UK pharmaceutical companies last year supported has nearly 14 per cent fewer PhD studentships and almost 25 per cent fewer postdoctoral grants than in 2003.