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Scientists call for repeal of 'deluded' EPSRC measures
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[Times Higher Education] - By Paul Jump More than 100 senior chemists, physicists and mathematicians have written to David Willetts, the universities and science minister, to demand the repeal of a raft of recent policy initiatives by the Engineering and Physical Sciences
Not dead yet: Aimhigher's aims live on
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[Times Higher Education] - By Jack Grove "Social mobility in this country has stalled," declared David Willetts in the autumn after it was announced that a quarter of English universities had failed to meet their targets for the number of disadvantaged students they admitted.
'Wrong statistic' blamed for Aimhigher's fall
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[Times Higher Education] - The closure followed comments that David Willetts, the universities and science minister, made in while he was in opposition about the "rather disappointing record of Aimhigher", which he said had "not yet succeeded in spreading university
David Willetts: Science University Will Make Britain 'Best Place In The World ...
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[Huffington Post UK] - A new breed of university to focus on science and technology has been touted by David Willetts to make Britain "the best place in the world" in those two subject fields. But the minister of state for universities and science emphasised there would be
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