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University of Leicester moves to cut all pure maths professors

Original: University of Leicester to make redundant all pure math professors (2021)

The University of Leicester plans to make redundant every one of its pure mathematics professors, alongside wider proposed job cuts. Mathematicians and academics reacted with alarm, calling the move a devastating blow to the discipline in Britain and questioning the university's commitment to fundamental research and teaching.

Why now: Academics and mathematicians are debating the threat to a whole department and what it signals about university cuts to pure research.

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