STFC Programmatic Review
Following hard on the heels of its decision to close the UK Infra-red Telescope and the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Hawaii, the Science and Technology Fatalities Council today announced the next stage of its Programmatic Review.
STFC graciously invites your contribution to this exercise, which is to be conducted by a Mr Reaper from Swindon…
In the Dark 
June 7, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Peter,
I assume this is all tongue in cheek and that’s fine – but just to be clear to anyone unaware of the context, the last time STFC did an exercise like this, we were grappling with budget problems, and the review led to pretty painful cuts in the programme. This review is very different – we are now assuming flat budgets (not great but a lot better than cuts) and the review is about refreshing and updating our programme to match evolving science priorities. If we want to do new things like E-ELT (as we do), then some of the older things have to be wound down – but this is not driven by a need to make cuts or save money overall.
John
June 7, 2012 at 7:40 pm
Yes, of course.
I didn’t have the Salmon Mousse anyway.
June 8, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Been watching too many Bergman films?