Reading University Physics Department Closure
As you may be aware Reading Universitys Physics Department is due for closure in 2010, this mean that there will be no undergraduate programme starting from next year, 2007-8.We, the Reading Physics S... continue reading »
"This is a decision that is not in the long term interests of the University or the Nation. Such short-termism has no place in a University."
"Britain needs more Physicists."
"Appalling decision. Yet another erosion of an essential subject and loss of expertise."
"Reading's Physics Department should continue !"
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"As a graduate of Reading (Chemistry 1975), this news saddens me, and in the long term is a mistake. I took physics for my FUE's and contemplated doing the Chemical Physics degree, which was a unique feature. I hope the University will change its mind."
"Its a shame that money is beating knowledge the battle of education"
"Reading University has a long a distiguished repuation for Physics. To close this prestigious department would be a serious betrayal of many of its outstanding scientists who have built up such a world-renowned institution."
"we need physicians!"
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"We need more physicists not less. An education in physics provides graduates with the skills that this country needs if it is to develop a successful knowledge based ecomony."
"Another year another Dept."
"This proposed closure is short sighted in the extreme. A lack of trained scientists and engineers is resulting in our country being overtaken those developing countries who care about science and technology."
"I got grade U twice at Olevel, so I know what it is like not to understand Physics"
"This is madness - we should be expanding scientific places not closing them"
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"Short-sighted, stupid, what else is there to say, don't let the bean counters and paper-clip shufflers win!!"
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"Physics is of the utmost importance."
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"Physics is vital to the future success of the UK"
"I am a physics graduate and have a Diploma in Education from Reading. Would any science graduate wish to do teacher training at a university without a physics department?"
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