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Ministers should reflect on that and report to Parliament on how best to retain, support and encourage research staff and on managing and funding research.We will not retain some staff, but we benefit from the globalisation of research.
In his view, the council has striven over a number of years to meet efficiency targets to achieve best value. I realise that some people will argue that best value can never be achieved, but once an optimum has been reached—given the services being delivered and the resources available—the difficulty is that the Exec...