The Society’s Regulations, as approved by the Society’s Council on 1 July 2015 provide that the initial terms of office of the members of the Council should not exceed three years which term shall be renewable for one further term. The terms of office of four of the twenty members of the Council will end at the ... Read More

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 (see letter here) and the Society was a co-signatory of the letters sent by the Campaign for Science a... Read More

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. The letter was co-signed by eight other organisations from ... Read More

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 vital funct... Read More

[soliloquy slug="royal-charter-celebration-evening"] The Learned Society of Wales held a formal celebration at the Wales Millennium Centre on the evening of 19 November to mark the award of Royal Charter by Her Majesty the Queen to the Society. Awards of Royal Charter are comparatively rare and are typically rese... Read More