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Amanda Morris Innovation starts in education

The government’s Innovation Nation White Paper says that the key to the UK becoming a world leader in innovation is to forge closer links between industry and higher education. In welcoming the White Paper, the Association for Science Education’s Alan Rhodes referred to and praised the Nuffield Foundation’s innovative approach in forging partnerships between education and industry. More ...

hansard - no overall control No Overall Control?

Will the next general election will produce a Parliament in which no single party holds a majority of seats in the House of Commons? A Nuffield funded study has led to this book from the Hansard Society, bringing together the thoughts of parliamentarians, academics and commentators from across the political spectrum to discuss what impact a 'hung parliament' might have on British politics.

Africa science Building African-led research capacity in science

Nuffield's Commonwealth Programme is responding to the Commission for Africa's call for donors to fund initiatives that build African-led research in science and health. The most recent, as part of a funding collaboration of European foundations, is a programme to develop African research capacity in neglected communicable diseases. More ...


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Last Updated Tue, 22 April 2008