► This week's issue of Science also includes a brief recap of the 40th annual AAAS Forum
on Science and Technology Policy, attended by «more than 400 elected officials, government and business leaders, researchers, educators, and others»
on 30 April and 1 May in Washington, D.C. «The importance of basic research for the nation's scientific and economic future was a recurring theme,» and «participants delved into the factors driving the
tight budget environment» scientists are
currently facing.
«We are
currently in the
tightest four year period for per - pupil spending in English schools since at least the early 1980s,» Belfield warned, adding that detail of what is going to happen to school
budgets after 2019 - 20 is a «big omission considering only 60 per cent of schools will be
on the main formula in 2019 — 20».