Letters.

Engineer, The, May, 2002

Extra funds, yes, but government must keep to word

The recent Science and Technology Select Committee report on the Research Assessment Exercise 2001 could not have come at a better time.

With the results of the Comprehensive Spending Review due to be unveiled in the summer, the Royal Academy of Engineering supports the Select Committee's recommendation to ministers that improved scores in the assessment exercise deserve to be matched with increased funding.

The government could send no clearer signal of the value it places on science and engineering excellence than by ensuring that research achievements in academic engineering departments are properly rewarded.

We welcome the Select Committee's recognition of the need for reform of the...