What is Project EREBUS? Should Students Fight it?
Posted by weard on 6/02/09 • Categorized as Comment, Featured, Student, Uni. Bham., politics Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The EREBUS project was developed by “major stake holders” in the west midlands and works within the universities of Aston, Warwick and Birmingham. It is the corporate salient within the west midlands academia. According to its website the project aims to focus “upon making impact in the Energy, Financial Services and Health technologies sectors”1. Project EREBUS, is part of a progress that has being gradually creeping into the higher education sector for almost 20 years. Starting under John major’s government and the conservative white paper “realising our potential: A Strategy for Science”, the idea was to adapt British science to the needs of British business, to distort academic research for the immediate application by industry. The idea was to stop scientists spending decades pursuing economically useless pursuits of
