Over at the House of Commons web site, the Commons Select Committee on
Science and Technology has published responses to its report on funding the
learned societies. Readers may recall that it had a few things to say on the
PEST front.
Start here:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmsctech.htm
Here is just one recommendation and response:
7. We believe that Copus should be made entirely independent of the Royal
Society,
the Royal Institution and the British Association, receive its funding
directly from
OST and that it should find new premises as soon as possible (paragraph 62).
8. Response: Copus's founders - The Royal Society, the Royal Institution and
the British
Association have decided recently to disband the Copus Council, having
concluded that
the top down approach which Copus exemplified is no longer appropriate to
the wider
agenda which the science communications community is now addressing. Our own
soundings have not revealed much support for a strategic body to replace
Copus, and
indeed we have encountered strong opposition in some quarters to the top
down
co-ordination of public communication of science.
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Michael Kenward OBE / Phone: +44 (0)1444 400568 Fax: 401064
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Science Writer & Stuff / Have words will travel
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