3rd March 2011, 03:27 PM
The British Academy statement says that the cuts 'reflect the strategic objective of the Academy, incorporated in its four-year delivery plan, agreed with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, to concentrate a greater proportion of its funding from the BASIS programme on its UK-operated overseas research institutes outside Europe with broadly-based disciplinary interests'.
That in itself is a worthy cause and I would be disturbed if the Academy were to reduce overseas funding as much as I am that funding for the CBA is to go. I think the CBA should receive some kind of state funding, perhaps directly through the National Lottery, that reflects its key role in UK heritage affairs. It seems inconceivable that the Councils 6000 individual and 600 corporate members will be able to make up the ?320,000 difference in funding.....
That in itself is a worthy cause and I would be disturbed if the Academy were to reduce overseas funding as much as I am that funding for the CBA is to go. I think the CBA should receive some kind of state funding, perhaps directly through the National Lottery, that reflects its key role in UK heritage affairs. It seems inconceivable that the Councils 6000 individual and 600 corporate members will be able to make up the ?320,000 difference in funding.....
With peace and consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind all passion spent...