Even before science's
current fiscal squeeze, many graduate students and postdocs were working 60 to 80 - hour weeks under heavy pressure to produce meaningful results.
Even if all of George Osborne's proposals for further cutbacks between 2014 and 2017 were fully implemented, the total percentage point drop in expenditure would rank
the current fiscal squeeze in fifth position out of the eight shown in the table.
Not exact matches
So the table demonstrates that, in historical perspective, Osborne's strategy implemented on top of the cutbacks already made by the
current coalition government would be unusual but not unprecedented in the length of the
fiscal squeeze it would imply (seven years).