“Cutting mathematics funding would betray the future” says Jon Keating, President of the LMS

Jon Keating, President of the London Mathematical Society, has written in the Times Higher Education that the UK government’s £300 million funding pledge must be confirmed in the spending review, and departmental closures must stop:

“Despite Sunak’s good intentions, the unprecedented scale of the bill for “building back better” post-Covid could jeopardise the £300 million funding for maths. But if ministers are serious about levelling up, they should remember that mathematics is one of the most inclusive subjects, attracting and liberating thousands of students from poverty or repression around the world in recent decades…It would not serve social diversity if it was impossible to study a core subject like mathematics at higher levels in some geographical areas.”

Read the full article on Times Higher Education.