THE British government has increased the Royal Society’s budget to finance
plans for greater links with the Soviet Union and Australia. The budget
will increase by 7 per cent in 1990/91 to almost Pounds sterling 14 million,
and will then rise to more than Pounds sterling 15 million in 1991/2.
The new money will finance the society’s plans to expand ‘substantially’
its scientific exchange arrangements with the Soviet Union. It will also
pay, among other things, for the introduction of a new postdoctoral fellowship
scheme to enable Australian scientists to spend a year or more in Britain.
