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Category Archives: David Willetts
An Anthropological Experiment in Birmingham
I’m not sure that spending my last day as Master of Churchill College at the Conservative Party Conference would have been quite what I expected, but so it was. I was in Birmingham – just as I was in Liverpool … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in apprenticeships, conservatives, David Willetts, education, Robert Halfon, Science Culture, skills
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Post-Election Christmas Reading List
The general election is now done and dusted. The UK’s future is determined, for good or ill. Scientists (along with everyone else) now must work out how to interact with the new policies, new ideas and – if some of … Continue reading
Posted in ARPA, Brookings Institute, David Willetts, Further Education, Science Funding, Science policy
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Travelling Hopefully to 2.4% GDP
David Willetts, for a number of years the Minister of State for Universities and Science, now an FRS, President of the Advisory Board for a think-tank (Resolution Foundation) and writer (most recently, A University Education), has just published a pamphlet … Continue reading
Posted in David Willetts, Dominic Cummings, Fraunhofer Institutes, Richard Jones, Science Funding
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Diversity in the HE Sector
When I was a harried mother, trying to maintain some sort of work-life balance while running a research group and keeping family fed and watered alongside my husband, I had no energy left for reading. Aga sagas, chick-lit and general … Continue reading
Posted in David Willetts, education, Further Educcation, higher education, Sam Gyimah
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Royal Society Meeting on Open Access in the UK: What Willetts Wants
After all the excitement of open access (OA) developments last Friday, there was a chance to take stock this Monday at the Royal Society’s conference on “Open access in the UK and what it means for scientific research”. The meeting, … Continue reading
Posted in David Sweeney, David Willetts, HEFCE, Open Access, RCUK, Royal Society, Tom Welton
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UK Government Goes For Broke on Open Access
Well that was quick. Less than a month after the Finch working group published its recommendations on the future of open access, UK science minister David Willetts has responded, saying in effect “Let’s go for it.” The government has taken … Continue reading
Posted in David Willetts, Open Access, publishing, Science & Politics
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Access to the Finch Committee on Open Access
The Finch Committee, set up last year by David Willetts to examine how UK-funded research findings can be made more accessible — and mentioned by the minister in his speech on the subject earlier this week — has been meeting … Continue reading
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Willetts’ Speech on Open Access: Analysis
David Willetts, Britain’s minister for science and universities, trailed the announcements made in his speech on open access to the UK Publishers’ Association yesterday as a ‘seismic shift’. One learns to be wary of the more hyperbolic statements of government ministers … Continue reading
Posted in David Willetts, Open Access, Publishers' Association, science, Science & Politics
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UK Government to lead the world to open access?
The open access buzz around the internet last week was all due to the announcement by senior faculty at Harvard that journal subscription prices were rising at an unsustainable rate and the call to colleagues to devote their publishing energies … Continue reading
Posted in David Willetts, Jimmy Wales, Open Access, science, Science & Politics
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Apple(s), Tomatoes, Willetts and Public Engagement
It’s National Science and Engineering Week in the UK, or at least it is for most places. In Cambridge we celebrate it with a fortnight, and call it a Festival because there is just so much to squeeze in. Many … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridge Science Festival, Communicating Science, David Willetts, food manufacturing, Outreach, Science Funding
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