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E&T
JANUARY 11, 2023
Lord Knight, a former Labour education minister, and Lord Willetts, former Conservative universities minister, have urged employers, training providers and young people to get involved in a ‘call for evidence’. Britain must transition towards a more sustainable and productive economy,” Lord Knight said.
E&T
OCTOBER 16, 2023
The five-point plan from Lord Knight and Lord Willetts, with support from charity EngineeringUK, was launched following an inquiry looking into the “worrying decline” in apprenticeships in recent years. Lord Willetts, inquiry co-chair and former Conservative minister for universities, said: “Engineering is key for the British economy.
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E&T
JULY 20, 2023
The House of Lords has passed a series of amendments to the Online Safety Bill that aim to impose safeguards to Ofcom's powers to u se “accredited technology” to scan encrypted messages for child sexual abuse material. Conservative peer Lord Moylan had proposed an amendment that would exempt encrypted services from scanning altogether.
E&T
MAY 15, 2023
Gabriel has also not shied away from playing politics with science-based policies, whether it was keeping the United Kingdom at arm’s length from the Horizon Europe research programme because of Brexit-related concerns or cutting Russia off from funding. The same is true for potential new Horizon tie-ups like Australia, Canada and Japan.
E&T
AUGUST 23, 2022
The Sunak campaign accused the EU of “playing politics” with Horizon and pledged to allocate the funding the UK would have spent supporting the programme to the new scheme. . Science and innovation will be at the heart of my government," Sunak said.
E&T
AUGUST 17, 2022
He also stressed the importance of the "political context" in the negotiations. . Earlier this month, a cross-party group of peers on the House of Lords’ Science and Technology Committee concluded in a report that the government’s international science policy “has been somewhat incoherent”.
E&T
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Prevignano explains that the system “spoke quite well to the revolutionary spirit” in its rejection of a feudal system of local units controlled by lords. The political will to metricate only came when it could no longer be denied that the British Empire was in terminal decline. without which they cannot be really equal in rights”.
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