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28/07/10 Academies Bill
CaSE has warned that the new Academies Bill, currently being debated by Parliament, removes the requirement that such schools would have to teach the national curriculum in science and mathematics. CaSE Director Imran Khan has blogged on the issue on the new Scientist's S-Word blog.. These concerns have been shared by the Labour MP Tristram Hunt, who has written to the Guardian on the issue.
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28/07/10 Imran Khan met with the fomer chair of the S&T Committee, Lord Willis of Knaresborough

27/07/10 CaSE met seperately with Commons S&T Committee members Gavin Barwell MP and Gregg McClymont MP

26/07/10 Investing in Innovation
Yannis Pierrakis has written for the CaSE blog on the new NESTA report looking at the slump in venture capital and its effect on innovation
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22/07/10 Comprehensive Spending Review
CaSE organised a discussion meeting with members and collaborators on the comprehensive spending review, held at Charles Darwin House

19/07/10 Science & Technology in the new House of Commons
Thew chair of the Commons S&T Committee, Andrew Miller MP, has written for the CaSE blog on what he sees as the major challenges facing the committee.
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13/07/10 Scientists for Labour
Scientists for Labour have unveiled on the CaSE blog the questions they’ll be formally asking the five Labour leadership candidates
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12/07/10 CaSE met with Oliver Colville MP

07/07/10 Early science and mathematics education: getting the basics right
The Royal Society's Nick von Behr has written for the CaSE blog on the new 'State of the Nation' report, examining the state of primary and early secondary science and mathematics education in the UK.
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06/07/10 CaSE published its monthly e-bulletin, detailing its current acitivities, briefings and news of upcoming events
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06/07/10 CaSE met with David Mowat MP

05/07/10 Gender equality in SET
Annette Williams, Director of the UK Reseource Centre for Women in SET, has written for the CaSE blog on the need for a comprehensive approach to building gender equality in the science, engineering and technology sectors.
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05/07/10 CaSE met with Chi Onwurah MP

29/06/10 Immigration cap threatens brain drain
UK had a net outflow of non-EU economic migrants in the last year for which statistics are available, according to the Office for National Statistics, revealed in a response to a Parliamentary Question tabled by the new Lib Dem MP for Cambridge Julian Huppert. The figures put a question mark over the Government’s proposals for an annual cap on non-EU economic migrants entering the UK. CaSE has warned that the UK is in danger of seeing a ‘brain drain’ should the cap be introdcued.
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22/06/10 The Budget
CaSE has responded to today's budget by calling on the government to adopt a long-term plan for science spending. Commenting on the budget, CaSE Director Imran Khan said, "Today wasn’t about setting the science budget – we will have to wait until the CSR in the autumn to see if the Government has understood the necessity of investing in science and engineering tosecure economic growth. Stable public spending – and certainly not a spending cut - is essential for encouraging R&D investors to build the UK’s high-skills, high-tech economy of tomorrow."
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22/06/10 Parliamentary Links Day
CaSE attended 'Science and the Parliament' Links Day 2010, organised by the RSC, which seeks to promote a stronger relationship between parliament and the science and engineering community. Speakers at the event, co-sponsored by CaSE, included Science Minister David Willetts, Shadow Energy and Climate Change Minister Ed Milliband and the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser Prof John Beddington.
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17/06/10 Research intelligence - Science's man in the lobby
In a profile published today in the Times Higher Education Supplement CaSE Director Imran Khan set out his vision and priorities for CaSE’s future work.
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17/06/10 The Foundation for Science and Technology on 350th Years of the Royal Society
CaSE attended The Foundation for Science and Technology discussion meeting in honour of 350th Years of the Royal Society. Imran Khan highlighted the importance of making sure that our immigration system does not work against the UK’s need to attract and employ the best scientists and engineers in the world. Hilary Leevers pointed out the need to build up an evidence base for decisions about how public support for R&D should be distributed

17/06/10 CaSE met with Graham Evans MP to discuss key issues, particularly those in innovation and affecting his constituency of Weaver Vale

17/06/10 CaSE met with staff of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee to discuss plans for future work

17/06/10 CaSE met with an advisor to Adam Afriyie MP to talk about priorities for the new parliament

17/06/10 CaSE met with staff from the Parliamentary Office of Science Technology

16/06/10 Opposition debate on industry
CaSE followed an excellent House of Commons opposition debate on government involvement in industry, which touched on many of the issues outlined in our pre-budget briefing document 'Securing Our Economic Future with Science and Engineering'. CaSE was pleased to see the involvement of many MPs in the debate, including speeches by MPs which CaSE have recently been in contact with.
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