The review, led by Prof Bill Wakeham, vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton, considered the international standing, funding arrangements, university provision, school education, careers and skill supply of physics in the UK.
Many have pointed to the shortsightedness of cutting university provision at a time when the economy is stuttering.
"This is a staggeringly unrepresentative number, causing real challenges for university provision and support," says Rosie Tressler, advisory group member and networks and projects manager at Student Minds.
What about the argument that it was only by expanding university provision and giving it better funding that more people from poorer backgrounds could have an equal chance to go to university?
So it must expand university provision without increasing the cost to the public purse, while also trying to raise standards.Brazil's government already spends heavily on higher education: 1.2% of GDP, compared with 0.7% in Argentina and an average of 0.9% among the richer countries of the OECD.
Ministers believe de-regulation will both drive down costs and put students, as consumers, in the driving seat of university provision.
The HEU, South Africa was also exploring a special university provision allowing certain professions to be paid "above-rate-for-job" and recently succeeded in negotiating this.
Although the number of jobs is still somewhat limited, with the British Olympic Association, U.K. sport institutes such as the English Institute of Sport (EIS), and other centres of excellence at clubs and universities, the provision of sport science is now better than it has ever been in Britain.
Students applying for these courses can do so with confidence as all of the university's provision, across all its campuses, has received the highest possible rating from the UK's Quality Assurance Agency.
The most significant development came at the University of Chicago when extension was included as an integral part of the design for the new university, incorporating provisions for off-campus centres, correspondence instruction, and various other programs.
