October e-Bulletin 2012
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Party Conferences
Government Re-Shuffle
Foreign Office
Annual Lecture and AGM
Guest Articles
Consultations

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26/09/12 CaSE met with Nesta

24/09/12 Beck Smith attended an AMRC Roundtable Breakfast at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference in Brighton

19/09/12 Imran Khan attended the Wellcome Trust science writing prize-giving

19/09/12 CaSE held a meeting of its Board of Directors

14/09/12 CaSE attended a 4G meeting with Nesta

13/09/12 Imran Khan spoke at the Science is Vital AGM

13/09/12 Imran Khan spoke on an Education Panel at an Imperial College event

12/09/12 Beck Smith met with E4E

12/09/12 Beck Smith met SCORE

11/09/12 CASE attended a BlueSkies Higher Education debate

11/09/12 Imran Khan visited a BASF site

05/09/12 CaSE met with Research Councils UK

03/09/12 CaSE met with the Royal Society

 

 
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Science at the Party Conferences  

As party conference season continues, CaSE director Imran Khan has written an article in Research Fortnight, calling on the main parties to make science central to their economic and political strategy.

The piece, entitled 'It's time for the big three to get serious on science', scrutinises each party in turn and urges them to show a genuine interest in science research.     

 

Labour 
In his conference speech earlier today, Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls called for the 4G auction windfall to fund housing and stamp duty breaks. Although welcoming Labour's focus on the 4G spectrum auction, CaSE has suggested that the money could be put to better use by investing in a radical overhaul of the economy instead.


Liberal Democrats
At their party conference last week, the Liberal Democrats passed a policy motion urging the Government to increase investment in science and research across the UK. The passing of this motion follows the publication of the Liberal Democrats' new science policy paper and we've compiled selected highlights of the policy paper here. 
Reshuffle repercussions for science?
Last month saw the first major re-shuffle of the Government and CaSE has looked at where this leaves the Coalition's policies on science and engineering.

Both Vince Cable and David Willetts have kept their jobs as Secretary of State and Universities and Science Minister respectively, which will be largely welcomed by scientists and engineers. However, there are bigger changes for the Government's skills agenda, with Liberal Democrat MP David Laws coming in as the new Schools Minister.
Foreign Office 'lacks clear science strategy'
A new report by the Government Office for Science has found that the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) lacks a clear science and innovation strategy.

We welcome the GO Science report and urge the FCO to act on its recommendations, so as to properly embed scientific and engineering expertise and advice across the department.
CaSE Annual Lecture and AGM - 27th November 2012 
The 2012 CaSE Annual Lecture is scheduled to take place on the evening of Tuesday 27th November. Further details of our eminent guest speaker will be published shortly.
Guest Articles on the CaSE Blog 
Consultations
For more information on our activities go to our website www.sciencecampaign.org.uk
 
To contact us please telephone 0207 679 4994 or email nickh@sciencecampaign.org.uk