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LibLink: Evan Harris – Here comes the Lib Dem science

By NewsHound | Fri 9th April 2010 - 7:45 am

Over at TheEngineer.co.uk, Lib Dem science spokesman Evan Harris – the party’s star Twitterer – sets out the party’s policy on all things scientific. Here’s an excerpt:

We have long-argued that the UK has become over-reliant on the financial services as a foundation for growth; that a knowledge-intensive economy is not only more reliable, but also more rewarding and a better strategic base in the long-term. It is the scientist and the engineer who will ultimately develop and build the supply of clean energy we will need, the artificial organisms key to future biotech, or the robotics crucial to our growing strength in the space sector. …

The Liberal Democrat strategy to address these issues is threefold. We need to encourage more people to study STEM subjects, to support Universities in training those students, and to rebalance our economy from its demonstrably shaky foundations so that those graduates have appropriate careers to compete for.

You can read Evan’s article in full here.

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