Current Affairs Scientists up in arms over government’s funding reform
Czech scientists are up in arms over the government’s plan to reform the system of science and research. The cabinet is planning to introduce new ways of evaluating the results of the individual scientific institutions, and allocate funds according to them. But scientists themselves say the new system is poorly designed, and warn that it might destabilize Czech science as such. Radio Prague spoke to Professor Jiří Drahoš is the head of the Czech Academy of Sciences about what he thought was wrong with the reform of RnD, or research and development.
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