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17:20 House of Commons Business Commons Business
17:20 | Commons Business | PoliticsHome
COMMONS CHAMBER 11.30am: Treasury questions (topicals at 12.15am) Main business Queen’s speech debate on the cost of living (opposition speakers: shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint and shadow communities and local government sec... Continue to article
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17:08 House of Commons Business Commons Business
17:08 | Commons Business | PoliticsHome
COMMONS CHAMBER 11.30am: Treasury questions (topicals at 12.15am) 12.30pm: Ministerial statement on Operation Herrick Main business Queen’s speech debate on the cost of living (opposition speakers: shadow energy secretary Caroli... Continue to article
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07:42 Vince Cable: Govt is committed to long-term investment in science On air
On Air | Vince Cable MP | Business Secretary | Today, BBC Radio 4
Vince Cable refused to commit to a targeted spend on science as a proportion of GDP. “I certainly share Sir Paul's [Nurse, President of the Royal Society] priority. He’s absolutely right, we have worked with our science, certainly since ... Continue to article
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15:53 In Brief Events
15:53 | Events | PoliticsHome
Chancellor George Osborne and Treasury chief secretary Danny Alexander launch a report on an independent Scotland's currency and monetary policy in Glasgow Home secretary Theresa May has a meeting with the Association of Police and Crim... Continue to article
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16:33 In Brief Events
16:33 | Events | PoliticsHome
Education secretary Michael Gove and former education minister Lord Adonis attend the Spectator conference on the schools revolution in London (09.00) Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin speaks at a London First breakfast discussion o... Continue to article
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13:38 David Willetts: We will make Britain a global centre for medical R&D On air
On Air | David Willetts MP | Universities minister | The World at One, BBC Radio 4
David Willetts said the Government wanted to make Britain a centre for medical research and development. "It helps us answer that question that you pose right at the beginning because we will discover over time the interaction of people’... Continue to article
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09:04 David Willetts: We can continue to attract science firms to UK On air
On Air | David Willetts MP | Universities minister |
David Willetts acknowledged it was disappointing that AstraZeneca staff in George Osborne's constituency were losing their jobs, but said the overall picture for science in the UK was positive. "It’s obviously disappointing for the north... Continue to article
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12:13 David Willetts: We've got further to go on apprenticeships On air
On Air | David Willetts MP | Universities minister | The Daily Politics, BBC Two
David Willetts said the Government had made good progress on apprenticeships but it wanted to go even further. “If you look at our record we’ve made good progress [on apprenticeships], I mean, there was 250,000 people starting apprentice... Continue to article
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11:06 Transcript: Higher Education Student Support for the 2014/15 Academic Year Transcripts
Higher Education Student Support for the 2014/15 Academic Year
WRITTEN MINISTERIAL STATEMENT Rt. Hon David Willetts, Minister of State for Universities and Science, DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS Higher Education Student Support for the 2014/15 Academic Year. 11 March 2013 ... Continue to article
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18:16 Transcript: Theresa May's speech to the ConservativeHome Victory 2015 conference Transcripts
Theresa May's speech to the ConservativeHome Victory 2015 conference
Thank you, Nadhim, for that kind introduction. And thank you, Tim, for inviting me to speak here today. I remember when Conservative Home was founded, eight years ago, and we both campaigned against the proposal to end the right of party me... Continue to article
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Stories involving David Willetts
Universities Minister David Willetts is expected to announce that small higher education institutions of under 4,000 students will be able to apply for university status, even if they have no intention of increasing in size or want to focus on a single subject.
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25/02/2012 in Further & Higher Education
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Willetts: Moving up is very hard
Class is still a divide in the UK and moving up is "very hard", David Willetts has said.
In a wide-ranging interview with The Times, the Universities Minister defended the appointment of Professor Les Ebdon as head of the Office for Fair Access, saying he was a candidate "who came from the world of universities and understood it".
Mr Willetts also said that he believed universities should be "levelling up, not levelling down" and that "there is no power to force a university to accept someone on a course who doesn’t have the ability to gain from that course and who isn’t up to it".
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04/01/2012 in Science & Technology
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Govt uni scheme to project growth
The Government has announced a privately-funded science university plan. David Willetts, who is heading the initiative, said science and research will drive the economy into growth.
Similar to project in New York, British universities are being asked to come up with ideas which the Government would help with. The universities have to find their own private funding however.
Mr Willetts said: “we are saying to the universities and potential new entrants, the ball is in your court, if you have got smart ideas about things you would like to do in the future that are a bit different from things you do now then come up with the ideas and we’ll look at them sympathetically.”
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27/05/2012 in Further & Higher Education
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Universities told to expand abroad
The Government is urging British universities to set up campuses overseas in order to teach more foreign students, prompting concern from university leaders that its pledge to cut immigration is stifling opportunities for foreign students to study in the UK.
A vice-chancellor told the Sunday Times they had been told "it would not be possible for the government to hit its targets for reducing net migration without cutting the number of visas given to genuine students”.
Provisional figures suggest young people are not being put off applying to university by increased tuition fees.
"It looks as is young people aren’t being put off, it looks as if the crucial group that we’ve made a great effort," the Universities Minister David Willetts told Sky News. "A lot of the debate over the past year has been whether young people leaving school or college would think they had to pay for university and so wouldn’t go."
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23/11/2011 in Further & Higher Education
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Willetts forced to abandon speech
David Willetts was forced to walk out of a speech at Cambridge University last night after it was disrupted by protesters. The Universities Minister was supposed to speak on the 'Idea of University' but was shouted down by protesters opposed to the Government's higher education policies.
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