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30/09/13 CaSE attended the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester

 

30/09/13 Sarah Main attended a Policy Exchange event on UK industrial policy

 

30/09/13 Sarah Main attended a ABPI/New Statesman event on UK Life Sciences

30/09/13 Sarah Main attended a Fragomen event on immigration

24/09/13 CaSE attended the Labour Party Conference in Brighton

24/09/13 Sarah Main attended a Reform/UCB event on science and growth

23/09/13 Sarah Main attended a Fragomen event on immigration

23/09/13 Sarah Main attended a Guardian event on apprenticeships

22/09/13 Sarah Main attended a ABPI/New Statesman event on UK Life Sciences, attended by the Shadow Science Minister

20/09/13 CaSE met with the Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

19/09/13 CaSE attended a  Council for Mathematics reception

18/09/13 CaSE met with the Director of the Centre for Science and Policy

16/09/13 Member of the CaSE Board attended the Liberal Democrat Party Conference in Glasgow

 

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CaSE Cross-Party Science and Engineering Debate
30th October, Royal Society 
We're delighted to announce that extra tickets have been made available for next week's CaSE Science and Engineering Debate on Wednesday 30th October at the Royal Society.

With less than two years until the 2015 General Election, CaSE is bringing together the science spokespeople from the three main Westminster parties to debate the future direction of science and engineering in the UK.
  • David Willetts MP (Conservative) Universities and Science Minister
  • Julian Huppert MP (Liberal Democrat) former Research Scientist
  • Liam Byrne MP (Labour), Shadow Universities, Science and Skills Minister
Registration and a reception event will take place from 6.30pm with the debate starting at 8pm. The event is free and you can register here. 

The debate will also be live-streamed from 8pm at royalsociety.tv and you can follow the discussion on Twitter: #casedebate
CaSE 2013 Annual Lecture - EU Chief Scientific Advisor    
Last Tuesday saw the CaSE 2013 Annual Lecture, given by the Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the European Commission, Professor Anne Glover CBE.
 

In her lecture, entitled 'What's the use of Evidence?', Professor Glover set out the challenges facing Pan-European scientific collaboration in the 21st Century, and examined how we can find better ways of ensuring that the knowledge we produce is used to make smarter policies and better lives.     

 

The event was kindly hosted by the Zoological Society of London, with over 200 delegates in attendance from across industry, academia, learned societies and the general public.  

You can listen to a full audio recording of the debate, and view Professor Glover's lecture presentation, here.

CaSE at the 2013 Party Conferences 
CaSE was represented at all three major party conferences in Glasgow (Liberal Democrat), Brighton (Labour) and Manchester (Conservative) this Autumn.

Upon returning to the office, CaSE Director Dr Sarah Main produced her round-up of science and engineering at the party conferences, including the announcement by Science Minister David Willetts of a �400m package to support science subjects in Higher Education.
SET Statistics 2013 
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) have published their Science, engineering and technology statistics 2013 - giving a breakdown of public-funded research in the UK.

Commenting on the figures in Times Higher Education, CaSE has warned that the UK remains in the bottom half of G7 nations for R&D spending, and urges the government to put science at the centre of economic growth.
Policy Jobs Page
We are currently listing a number of science and engineering policy job opportunities on our website.

If you are a prospective employer and would like to advertise a vacancy here, please email [email protected].
Open Consultations 
For more information on our activities go to our website www.sciencecampaign.org.uk
 
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