Times Higher Education04 April 2014 Issue No:314
Universities and Science Minister David Willetts has spoken of his shock at discovering that there is a belief in Israel that the United Kingdom is hostile to working with its scientists and students, reports Matthew Reisz for Times Higher Education.
Willetts was visiting Israel and the Palestinian Territories with a delegation of vice-chancellors and university leaders. During the second BIRAX, or Britain Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership, conference hosted by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa - he said BIRAX, so far worth GBP10 million (US$16.6 million), had already funded seven research projects between teams in Britain and Israel, and a second call for proposals has now gone out.
He said he had been "shocked" by a "belief in Israel that there was a boycott, and hostility to Israeli scientists" in the UK.
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