A warning sign (from the same article) - there was a time, not so long ago, when we were a clear leader here:
Posted on 05/18/2006 8:25:46 AM PDT by Quark2005
The Conservative Party is promising to put science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) centre-stage in its formation of new policies.
Tory leader David Cameron has set up a task-force to advise him on how best to develop these important disciplines to the advantage of the British economy.
He has asked Ian Taylor, a science minister in the last Conservative government, to chair the new group.
Labour dismissed the latest initiative from the opposition as just a PR stunt.
"Gimmicks like another policy commission are no substitute for the sustained investment and policy that Labour has put in place over the past nine years," a spokesperson said.
"The manifesto Cameron wrote just a year ago was remarkable for not mentioning science or engineering once."
Ian Taylor conceded that was an error, but said all parties could do more to raise STEM up the political agenda.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
A warning sign (from the same article) - there was a time, not so long ago, when we were a clear leader here:
It's too bad you don't understand the difference between capitalism and socialism.
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