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In yesterday’s Politeia Winter Address, Universities and Science Minister David Willetts has confirmed that the Treasury will exempt university collaboration from VAT – a long-standing aim of CaSE’s campaigning, and something we’ve raised with officials from HM Treasury and the Department for Business Innovation and Skills on a number of occasions The announcement comes as ...
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The Scottish National Party has responded to calls from CaSE and others and increased the profile of science in the Scottish Government. Dr Alasdair Allan MSP has been named as Scotland’s first ever Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland’s Languages. CaSE met with Mike Russell, Cabinet Secretary for Education, and corresponded with First Minister Alex ...
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CaSE is pleased to announce the election of its new Board of Directors. Headed by the Chairman, Prof Hugh Griffiths, the Board will meet several times a year to discuss CaSE’s work in campaigning for the interests of UK science and engineering. The new Board replaces the previous Executive Committee, following CaSE’s change in status to ...
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The Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) is today welcoming the Government’s plans to reform computing education in schools. The decision is an important one not just for the UK’s growing digital technology sector, but for wider society and economy too. We’re really pleased that Michael Gove has listened to us and others in ...
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CaSE has today published its January 2012 e-bulletin, giving a summary of all CaSE’s activities over the last month. These include: This week the government outlined its ambition to make the UK ‘the best place in the world to do science’, in a speech given by the Science Minister David Willetts. The event was hosted ...
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We may be barely into 2012 but it seems that BIS were busy over the Christmas break. At Policy Exchange this morning, David Willetts delivered a speech on ‘Our hi-tech future’ which also included the launch of new Research Council impact reports. Coverage of the speech in the morning’s media on the BBC website and a ...
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