"Jim Webster" wrote in message
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Gordon Couger wrote in message
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What do the fellows that you have hired to do agricultural
research do
anyway.

Gordon

very little. Most agricultural research relevant to dairy farming in
UK
is done in Ireland and New Zealand.
Funding for research in UK determines what the research is. UK
government doesn't care so the universities get funding where they
can.

Same here. Are the universities replacing retiring faculty?


honestly don't know. Staff in agricultural colleges are worried as the
courses change towards golf and equestrian. I suspect that we have so
few universities that do agriculture (Reading, Newcastle, Wye,
Nottingham, Bangor are the ones that spring to mind but I haven't looked
at a prospectus for a generation) that they can fund themselves with
foriegn research. I know Reading used to take an awful lot of students
from Africa and the commonwealth.

Our hydrology department was nearly half Chinese grad students once.

Gordon.