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Building our industrial strategy?
08 May 2017

Naomi Weir sets out some of CaSE’s industrial strategy priorities from our submission to BEIS’s ‘Building our Industrial Strategy’ consultation

Entering the world of policymaking – the importance of evidence
28 April 2017

Anusha Panjwani looks back at her nine month CaSE policy fellowship, during which she produced CaSE’s new Evidence report.

The case for evidence
13 April 2017

Ahead of the global ‘March for Science’ and the publishing of a new CaSE report, Executive Director Dr Sarah Main sets out the importance of scientific evidence in ensuring good policy-making.

Science and engineering must stay at the negotiating table for Brexit
29 March 2017

CaSE Chair, Professor Graeme Reid, describes how CaSE will keep pressing the interests of science and engineering at senior levels in Government as Brexit negotiations get going.

Far-reaching consequences of Brexit for science can be tackled now
28 March 2017

As the UK begins the process of leaving the European Union, CaSE Executive Director, Dr Sarah Main, considers how to ensure our strength in science and engineering continues to benefit the UK.

Reflections on the 2017 Spring Budget
10 March 2017

Deputy Director, Naomi Weir, takes a look at how science & engineering fared in the Budget

Looking ahead to the Spring Budget
07 March 2017

CaSE Executive Director Dr Sarah Main takes a look at tomorrow’s Budget and the key announcements that CaSE that will be keeping an eye out for

Report digest: Recruitment and retention of teachers
22 February 2017

Naomi Clarke, CaSE intern, pulls out the STEMM highlights from the Education Committee’s latest report

International R&D investment update
15 February 2017

Naomi Weir takes a look at the latest OECD R&D intensity figures

And they’re off: HE Bill Lords Committee stage commences
10 January 2017

A look at the first debate of the Committee stage of the HE & Research Bill in the House of Lords

PISA findings and implications for UK education
08 December 2016

A look at the OECD’s programme for international student assessment (PISA) results which this year had a focus on science

Reflections on the 2016 autumn statement
23 November 2016

Naomi Weir reflects on the 2016 autumn statement in which £2bn investment was announced for science and innovation.