Our AI / tech / knowledge economy growth focused government recently cut the extra funding pot that was given to universities to run what are deemed high cost subjects e.g. Chemistry, Medicine, etc. … (View Post)

My understanding is that even some very highly ranked universities are under serious financial strain. There is also an issue with funding for PhD, which without those, you don't get post-docs, … (View Post)

Drug testing has got a lot better.... (View Post)

Well that's because they errrr, well, had the test levels of a doped man, that they had basically become a man. The women's 100m only got broken in the past few years after Flo-Jo held it f… (View Post)

Although the 1500m became the standardised event, I am pretty sure they used to run it on a number of occasions every year after that. But you are right that it wasn't the focus for anybody in m… (View Post)