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New Realities for Global Health Security
18 February, 2016
Archive for the ‘Policy’ Category
HEFCW CUTS – LSW Response: Western Mail, 11 February
11 February, 2016
Back in January 2015, the Learned Society of Wales’s (LSW) submission to the Diamond Review committee predicted that without significant change to the growing and un-controlled current fee‐grant support leaving Wales, there would be less central funding available to support important... Read More
Proposed HEFCW Budget Cuts 2016/17
9 February, 2016
The Society was actively involved in efforts to overturn the proposed cut to the HEFCW budget.
The President wrote to the First Minister, Minister for Economy, Science and Transport and the Minister for Education (Read More
HEFCW Cuts: Contribution to CASE letter
5 February, 2016
In January CaSE wrote to the Minister for Education and Skills in the Welsh Government, expressing concerns at the 32% cut to the budget of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) proposed in the Welsh Government’s draft Budget in December.Read More
HEFCW Budget Cuts: CaSE Letter to Minister for Education and Skills, December 2015
3 February, 2016
The Learned Society jointly wrote with CaSE, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Royal Society, the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Biology and other learned societies, to Huw Lewis AM, the Minister for Education and Skills, in response to the draft Welsh government budget 2016-17.
HEFCW has a... Read More
Evidence by President to Lords’ Science and Technology Committee
20 January, 2016
On 12 January 2016, Sir Emyr Jones Parry, President of the Society appeared in front of the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Lords, to give evidence to the inquiry on the Relationship between EU Membership and the Effectiveness of UK Science.