Stories from January 2009
A security boost for physics
Institute of Physics
30 January 2009
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has announced that it will make permanent an allocation of £25 million each year to secure the higher education provision of strategically important subjects, including physics, from 2010 onwards.
Subjects such as physics, chemistry and chemical engineering are more expensive for universities to provide because of the increasing cost of laboratory facilities. In 2007, HEFCE allocated £75 million for three years to ensure the availability of courses in these strategically important subjects.
Peter Main, director of education and science at the Institute of Physics, said, “I am delighted with HEFCE’s commitment to safeguard the long-term sustainability of university physics provision. This announcement sends a positive message of the government’s support for physics and the contribution that physics graduates make to the UK’s economy.”
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