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24 January 2013 | Eight Great Technologies

David Willetts

  • The UK is facing global challenges. Our research is world class, but we need to be better at taking our great scientific research and applying it. This pamphlet, by Universities and Science Minister Rt Hon David Willetts MP, sets out eight great technologies where we can do exactly that.

  • 24 January 2013 | Create Streets

    By Alex Morton, Nicholas Boys Smith

  • Create Streets shows how demolishing high rise social housing blocks and replacing them with real streets made up of low rise flats and terraced housing would improve the lives of thousands of people who suffer from living in multi-storey housing.

  • 21 January 2013 | Technical Matters: Building a high quality technical and vocational route through the education system

    By Owen Corrigan
    Edited by Lucy Lee

  • Technical Matters calls for a distinct technical and vocational route through the education system to help reduce dropout and disengagement. Employers should work more closely with technical and vocational education providers to ensure the curriculum is relevant to future jobs and incorporates high quality instruction to industrial-level standards.

  • 17 January 2013 | Smarter, Greener, Cheaper: Joining up domestic energy efficiency policy

    By Guy Newey
    Edited by Simon Moore

  • Households could reduce their gas and electricity bills by as much as £70 a year if they were allowed to compare each other’s energy bills. Smarter, Greener, Cheaper, shows there is evidence both internationally and in the UK that households cut the amount of energy they use when their energy use is compared to that of a more energy efficient neighbour.

  • 07 January 2013 | The Superfast and the Furious: Priorities for the future of UK broadband policy

    By Sarah Fink, Chris Yiu

  • The Superfast and the Furious argues that politicians have become overly focused on broadband speeds. Instead the government should focus on helping the 10.8 million people not online and do more to help small businesses make the most of the opportunities presented by the internet.

  • 28 December 2012 | Planning for Less: The impact of abolishing regional planning

    By Alex Morton

  • Planning for Less shows that councils are planning to build 272,720 fewer new homes since the abolition of regional planning. The report argues that rather than fighting councils the government should now work with them to ensure that they actually deliver the homes their targets propose.

  • 14 December 2012 | A Better Start in Life: Long-term approaches for the most vulnerable children

    By Matthew Oakley, Alex Burghart

  • This report argues that the government should increase the number of looked after and disadvantaged children given the opportunity to attend boarding schools. Using residential schooling can provide children with stability at home and at school, is actually cheaper than foster care and disadvantaged children staying in boarding schools attain better grades.

  • 14 December 2012 | In the Public Interest: Reforming the Crown Prosecution Service

    By Karen Sosa

  • In the Public Interest explores the role and responsibility of the Crown Prosecution Service. It says the prosecution service should retain its powers but calls for more transparency and accountability when it comes to measuring the organisation’s successes and failures.

  • 12 December 2012 | Policing 2020: What kind of police service do we want in 2020?

    By Edward Boyd
    Edited by David Skelton

  • Policing 2020 looks at the landscape of policing over the next ten years, calling for a return to Sir Robert Peel’s core principles of crime prevention by restoring the link between the public and the police. The report recommends replacing neighbourhood police officers with new Crime Prevention Officers and the establishment of Citizen Police Academies.

  • 03 December 2012 | Reform of the Bank of England: A new Bank for a new Governor

    By James Barty

  • Reform of the Bank of England argues that the Bank of England's focus on monetary policy meant that it was not prepared for the impact of the freezing up of the financial markets and the collapse of some of the UK’s biggest banks. The report argues that without major reform to the Bank, the new financial regulatory regime currently going through Parliament risks being as flawed as its predecessor.