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Times
25-04-2025
- Science
- Times
Trump brain drain starts global tug-of-war for the best science minds
It is, said the president of the Australian Academy of Science, an 'urgent and unparalleled opportunity' to grab the best US minds for Australia. The president of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore agrees, but thinks the chaos in US academia is, instead, a 'golden opportunity' for Asian universities. Au contraire, says President Macron of France. As his country's universities launch programmes of 'scientific asylum' for researchers fleeing the US, the time is right, he says, to 'Choose France for Science'. Perhaps not since the victorious Allies competed to entice Germany's best scientists in 1945 has there been such overt competition to nab a country's intellectual human capital. But, says Sir John Bell, the head of Britain's Ellison Institute of Technology, there's probably no need
BBC News
27-03-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Cowley line campaign launches to support passenger reopening
Restoring a passenger rail service in east Oxford would provide a "fast and reliable" transport link to the city centre, a newly-formed campaign group has Cowley Branch Line is currently only used by freight going to and from the BMW Mini Plant. It has been closed to passengers since Campaign for Cowley Branch Line has been set up to back efforts to create two new stations and provide a nine-minute journey time to the city group is calling on local businesses to support the effort to get the transport link prioritised in regional infrastructure planning. Under the proposals, passengers would be able to use new stations at Littlemore and Blackbird Leys to travel to Oxford city centre.A direct service to London Marylebone would also run twice an City Council gave £500,000 to a project to help design the new branch stations on the route serving Oxford Science Park and Oxford Business Park.A consultation carried out by the local authority in November reported "overwhelming support" for the reopening Campaign for Cowley Branch Line is led by ARC Oxford, the Ellison Institute of Technology and The Oxford Science said the project would also help boost the wider local economy, creating between 6,000-10,000 new the campaign, MP for Oxford East Anneliese Dodds said: "It's important to deliver this project because it goes beyond just a transport measure and helps us deliver much needed housing for Oxford residents as well as creating a new expanded hub for innovation and economic growth," said The detailed business case for the Cowley Branch Line is due to be submitted to the government this approved, Oxford City Council and Network Rail said they would work to progress the reopening as quickly as possible. You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
