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- The Annual Innovation Report 2008 has now been published.
- DIUS has partnered with the TUC and Get Safe Online to launch a new toolkit to help improve workers' Internet security awareness and skills. Read the full announcement
- LSC Funding: Read the LSC grant letter 2009-10, LSC Statement of Priorities and the press release on LSC funding.
- HE Debate – Read the Secretary of State’s nine commissioned contributions on the future of higher education and join the debate.
- DIUS has released an information pack on EU Regulation 765/08 on Accreditation and Market Surveillance, seeking views on its implementation in UK
- Denham approves new National Skills Academies: 7 Oct press release and photos from launch event.
- Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion - nominations close on 31 October
- Consultation on Draft Legislative Programme now closed
- HEFCE to lead a debate on developing local higher education provision (consultation on the new 'University Challenge')
- Invitation to the first DIUS Exp08
- UK-IPO Response to the European Commission's proposal to extend the term of copyright protect
- New trustee for the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
- Innovation Nation: Interactive - your say
- Work Skills - Compulsory training and an overhauled training system to help people get into and on at work.
- Time to Train consultation
- 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours List - recipients from Science, Innovation, HE, FE and Skills community
- Skills Pledge 1 Year On
- Update on English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) consultation
- 2008 Value Added Scoreboard
- DIUS annual report published
- Learners' success rates continue to increase
- Adult Learners' Week 2008, 17 to 23 May 2008
- Employer training spend hits record high - National Employer Skills Survey and Train to Gain learner and employer evaluations published
- Publication of DIUS business plan
- Invitation to Raising Expectations consultation events
- Higher Education at Work: Consultation, Press Release 14th April 08, or Video of launch
- Denham Announces Next Steps to Assess Research Excellence
- 'Innovation Nation' - White Paper or Press Release 13th March 08 or Ministerial Statement
- DIUS appoints new Director General of Science and Research
- Student Juries: Press Release 9 April 08 or Student Jury Reports.
- Apprenticeship Pay: read 2007 Survey of Earnings by Sector.
- Life Chances: supporting people to get on in the labour market - an analytical discussion paper -
Life Chances Paper (PDF 1,072KB)
- 'Raising Expectations' - Raising Expectations Consultation or Press Release 17th March 08
- A new 'University Challenge' - View Consultation (PDF 161KB) or Press Release 3rd March 08
- Chief Scientific Adviser sounds warning on food security - View Powerpoint Presentation or Text Summary
- New CEO for further education improvement body
- National Science and Engineering Week 2008
- JANET wins top prize for excellence in e-Government Shared Services
- John Denham Speech - Science and Society - RSA, London - 16 January 2008 (PDF - 2,386KB)
- Civil service sickness absence figures
- New boost for patients with debilitating diseases
- DIUS have set up a new Technology Strategy Board as an executive Non-Departmental Public Body
- The UK Vocational Qualifications Reform Programme
- DIUS has launched its consultation on the future of Informal Adult Learning, select here to view the consultation document (PDF 1,029KB), select here to view the consultation website.
- DIUS has published its Departmental Strategic Objectives (DSOs), Public Service Agreements (PSAs) and headline indicators (Powerpoint file 123KB) and Departmental Strategic Objectives (DSOs), Public Service Agreements (PSAs) and initial indicators (Word document 140KB). Both of these documents apply from April 2008 onwards.
- DIUS have up the new Technology Strategy Board as an executive Non-Departmental Public Body
- DIUS has published its 'Value for Money Delivery Agreement' (Word document 176KB)
- Make your contribution to the Science and Innovation strategy
- The UK-IPO is looking to recruit a Chair for the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property. The closing date is 21st January 2008
- GO-Science have published an update to the Code of Practice for Scientific Advisory Committees (PDF file 2,179KB), and the Government Response to the consultation on the Code update (PDF file 256KB)
- Safeguarding Children: Guidance for Higher Education Institutions (PDF file 477KB)
- New Arts & Humanities Research Council Chair Appointed
- DIUS has now published its simplification plan (PDF file 196KB)
- Improvement in the Further Education Sector - A Consultation Prospectus for a New Sector-owned Organisation
- Important changes to the application process for the Register of Education and Training Providers.
