#RobertWilliams: “Research budgeting, science and education are the decline of national academies in the international context.”Justice News247

Balance sheet reports from some national academies indicate concerns about funding in almost all areas of research. Where academic research is doubled by an industry interested in research and innovation, these impediments are not so well known, but in the absence of industries, strong university centers, underfunding is synonymous with bankruptcy.

Branch academies, as they are recognized, are institutions of excellence and professional elite that often finance themselves from dues, donations and external grants that are increasingly few and difficult to access.

Research at present is not the academic prerogative but is rethought to the private sector, with minimal funding to universities and recruitment of future employees from among students.

Universities are frontline providers of research, profit and education, so in relation to the Academy the latter must cope not only with public interest in its contribution to the state of national science, but also with political changes in its priorities.

Wars, emigration, bad policies, economic survival, unemployment, economic and social gap, illiteracy, underfunding, are causes that shatter trust and perception of the crucial importance of academic elitism.

A manifesto in theory can give time in these difficult times for academic communities to regroup, to make perhaps stronger alliances and to be as united as possible in the face of these challenges with unpredictable consequences.

In the global world, netrality and self-isolation in order to delay as long as possible influences show that ultimately the best interests of science and education require the interconnection and absorption of those who can promote with dignity its academic and elitist values.

The fangs of science are getting stronger because they easily and visibly but painfully point directly to areas of interest and funding. Some sciences survive by funding others, others are condemned to oblivion and the basket of history although they are still the pillar of humanity.

What to do? When should action be taken? What solutions are at hand? What does the near future look like if the recent past and present look like this? How will artificial intelligence be implemented in academia, will it replace the Academies? The unforeseen …