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The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Sadly, the newly promoted economic secretary to the Treasury, Ian Pearson, has removed the ' favourites ' page from his website, otherwise you would still be able to click through to www.pokerroom.com, one of the websites listed as Ian's favourites when I last blogged about him following his attack on Ryanair back in 2007. Maybe he's knocked it on the head these days, who knows? By the way, anyone...
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Chris Paul: Labour of Love (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
The Labour North West Press Release: "Students will never trust a Lib Dem candidate again" - Denham NICK Clegg spoke to the Manchester University Students' Union this lunchtime, two weeks after his party ditched its opposition to tuition fees. MP John Denham, Labour's Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, said: "The Liberal Democrats made fees their big issue and they used this...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
The chancellor of Oxford University's assertion that the middle class should pay more for the benefits their offspring's education may yield sounds reasonable to me.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The war of words between ministers and top universities escalated last night as Oxford's chancellor was accused of being "outmoded".
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
The UK’s space and satellite telecommunications industry has seen its turnover nearly double in the last seven years and looks set to continue to grow strongly, Science and Innovation Minister Ian Pearson will tell a major international gathering in Glasgow tomorrow. The UK space industry continues to show strong growth, with the sector growing by nearly [...]
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Labour Matters (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Writing in The Guardian today David Lammy MP lays down a challenge to Cameron’s Conservatives: “The Tories’ economic policy, or lack thereof, is not their only problem. Cameron’s core proposition is that society is broken but that government – any government – cannot fix it. As with economic policy this leads to discursive speeches which take [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
David Lammy: Anyone know what the Tories think about the financial crisis? They've kept quiet because their solution is to trust the markets
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
John Denham, the Universities Secretary, is right to ask the Quality Assurance Agency to respond quickly when standards in higher education are being questioned – as they were this summer. But we hope this isn't simply to shut up the critics and sweep criticism under the carpet. What matters is that students' concerns about the support they get from their tutors, and whether, for example, they are...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Letters: Ian Pearson needs to get his science straight before considering taking a stance in support of GM (Science minister attempts to reopen the debate on GM crops, September 22)
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icWales (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Nine of the most selective universities are to work together to ensure fair access for all bright students, Universities Secretary John Denham will announce.
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Greenpeace UK blogs (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Government wonks have once again been druming up support for GM food, the latest tub-thumping courtesy of science minister Ian Pearson. He's been saying that if engineered crops can be demonstrated to alleviate hunger around the world, then the great British public will be only too happy to see them being cultivated in our green and pleasant land as well. I wouldn't be surprised if Pearson is being...
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ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Responding to attacks from his opposite number John Denham, the Conservative Party's Universities spokesman David Willetts has used an article in The Guardian to make it clear that a Tory government is committed to increasing university numbers. Mr Willetts says...
