The UK is the first country in the world to introduce a legally binding framework for tackling climate change and the implications of this are likely to be far reaching for the public sector. Over the coming years targets will be set, carbon emission budgets agreed and strategies and plans announced: all with the overall...

The political project for European Union is defined by its inherent dialectic as both part of and a distinct response to globalisation. Like other regionalisms, the EU is broadly committed to openness or ‘open regionalism’. But the project for European Union has also been defined by its pursuit of a social capitalism and the promotion...

This study, prepared by Mindset Research, has looked at activities and developments in the fields of e-Learning and e-Infrastructure supporting the higher education and research sectors in ten countries across the world: Australia; Canada; Denmark; Germany; Korea; Japan; the Netherlands; New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. This report attempts to offer a...

Partnerships for Schools (PfS) is responsible for delivering the government’s secondary school renewal programme, Building Schools for the Future (BSF). PfS is working with local authorities and the private sector to rebuild or renew every one of England’s 3,500 state secondary schools during the 15-year lifetime of the multi-billion BSF programme. PfS’s education and design...

This report has attempted to draw together and synthesise evidence and opinion associated with data-intensive open science from a wide range of sources. The potential impact of data-intensive open science on research practice and research outcomes, is both substantive and far-reaching. There are implications for funding organisations, for research and information communities and for higher...