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Back to the future: lessons from 2010
23 November 2015

In preparation for Wednesday’s Spending Review, Martin Turner takes a look through the CaSE archives to see how things unfolded in 2010

Commons S&T Committee backs science ahead of Spending Review
09 November 2015

An overview of the Commons S&T Committee’s Science Budget report, out today.

S&T Committee Chairs’ letter to Sajid Javid
22 October 2015

Past and present Chairs of the House of Lords and House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committees have written to the Business Secretary

Life science organisations call on Government to invest in basic research
08 September 2015

Almost 200 life sciences organisations – from funders to pharmaceuticals companies – have written to the Financial Times to ask the UK government to protect its investment in science in the forthcoming Spending Review

More needs to be done to promote STEM apprenticeships
02 September 2015

Analysis of STEM apprenticeships by CaSE, and covered in the Independent, shows a decline in numbers and action is needed if apprenticeships are to be a meaningful part of the solution to the STEM skills gap.

CaSE refused information on BIS ‘efficiency and effectiveness review’
23 August 2015

CaSE submitted an FOI to BIS regarding an efficiency and effectiveness review to find out more about the scope and findings. Read the BIS response.

CaSE call for evidence on immigration
16 July 2015

CaSE calls for evidence on impact of immigration on UK science and engineering

BIS may be understating the returns on investing in R&D
16 July 2015

New analysis on the economic returns to investment in R&D published ahead of the Spending Review

Government publishes its productivity plan
10 July 2015

A handy digest of the new announcements for science and engineering in the Government’s Productivity Plan, published today.

What have we learned from the summer budget?
08 July 2015

A summary of what we already knew, what we found out, and what we still don’t know following the publication of the Government’s Summer Budget

New Lords S&T Committee and POST members announced
05 June 2015

An update on members of the House of Lords Science and Technology and the board of POST

Election campaigns underway to choose the next Chair of the S&T Committee
01 June 2015

A summary of Select Committee elections.