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Chairman of FutureLearn & Visiting Professor King's College London.

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@JoJohnsonUK
Jo Johnson
5 years
It’s been an honour to represent Orpington for 9 years & to serve as a minister under three PMs. In recent weeks I’ve been torn between family loyalty and the national interest - it’s an unresolvable tension & time for others to take on my roles as MP & Minister. #overandout
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Jo Johnson
6 years
With great regret, I'm resigning from the Government - I have set out my reasons in this article and the video below.
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Jo Johnson
5 years
Parliament should be allowed to get on with it and vote on the PM's deal before Christmas. It's not going to improve with a few tweaks and assurances. It's fundamentally flawed. Persisting with it is burning up valuable time. Delaying vote til mid January totally unacceptable.
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4 years
A crackdown on academic freedom won't help India transform itself into a knowledge economy. Not a single university in the Times Higher Education’s global top 300 this year, for the first time since 2012. via @financialtimes
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Jo Johnson
5 years
Persisting with this hopeless endeavour is irresponsible - Bloomberg editorial view is that it’s time to “let the people decide”
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Jo Johnson
5 years
Big news - Home Secretary accepts my new clause in Immigration Bill lifting post study restrictions on foreign students! Real win for UK soft power. Many thanks to Conservative colleagues and the x-party MPs who backed it, esp ⁦ @PaulBlomfieldMP
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Jo Johnson
5 years
Full of admiration for @SamGyimah . A strong & principled resignation statement. And good to see him open to giving the public the final say now we know the Brexit deal that’s actually on the table.
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Jack Maidment
5 years
You can read why Sam Gyimah has chosen to quit the Government over the Brexit deal from the man himself. Here’s his piece for the @Telegraph :
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Jo Johnson
5 years
Many wonderful things about Orpington but Dina Asher-Smith is truly something else... not just the fastest in the world but 10 A*s at GCSE, 3 As at A Level and a first class degree from Kings ...
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Jo Johnson
7 years
Actually. No. Disadvantaged young people now more than 40 per cent more likely to go to university than they were in 2009/10
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Unite Politics
7 years
Jeremy Corbyn: "Fewer working class young people are applying to university. Let's end the debt burden and scrap tuition fees!" #ToriesOut
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Jo Johnson
5 years
Fabulous news - at long last a sensible post study work regime !
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Jo Johnson
6 years
Toby Young's track record setting up & supporting free schools speaks for itself. His decision to stand down from the OfS board and repeat unreserved apologies for inappropriate past remarks reflects his character better than the one-sided caricature from his armchair critics.
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5 years
Delighted to be appointed unis & science minister (for the 4th time...by a 3rd consecutive PM). Really looking forward to working again with our world-class unis, scientists and innovators - our greatest national asset + key to our future as a knowledge economy
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Times Higher Education
5 years
In his first term as universities minister, Jo Johnson enacted radical policy changes. @Rachel_Hewitt_ considers what we can expect during his second turn in the post
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Jo Johnson
8 years
UK welcomes EU students. Current students and this autumn's applicants will continue to receive student finance for duration of their course
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Jo Johnson
5 years
Government must stop running down the clock in the hope of ramming the PM’s deal through Parliament at the eleventh hour - this amendment hopefully won’t let it.
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Jo Johnson
5 years
Important letter to FT from Jonathan Hill, former EU Commissioner for financial services, who hasn’t met one person who thinks Norway-style Brexit will work for the City
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Jo Johnson
6 years
I have asked Network Rail, UK's 4th largest landowner, to suspend tree felling during the nesting season and will be setting up independent review of lineside tree + vegetation management
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Jo Johnson
4 years
On how Narendra Modi has pledged to propel Indian universities to the top of global league tables even as he seeks to stamp out dissent within them. These objectives will be hard to reconcile. via @financialtimes
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5 years
The new clause means students at recognised universities will have an automatic right to stay on to work for two years on their Tier 4 student visa and, in addition, will no longer be counted towards any hard UK-wide net migration cap on numbers.
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Jo Johnson
6 years
So wrong, this stuff re Justine Greening - she supported me in every single reform we undertook of our universities, was a terrific colleague and faultlessly loyal.
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Jo Johnson
5 years
Looks like Augar (as predicted) will destabilise uni finances, imperil many courses & reverse progress in widening access. Reducing fees to £7.5k will leave funding hole HMT won't fill + benefit only highest earning grads at expense of general taxpayer. Bad policy, bad politics.
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5 years
My last day as an MP - it’s been an honour. Seat belt fastened. Life jacket stowed. See you when we get there. #overandout
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Jo Johnson
7 years
Abolishing tuition fees & funding unis out of general taxation would be regressive, benefiting richest graduates, as IFS has repeatedly said
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Jo Johnson
6 years
Videos of balaclava-wearing thugs no platforming Jacob Rees-Mogg another repugnant example of threats to freedom of speech on campus - a problem many recently insisted entirely imaginary..
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Jo Johnson
4 years
Oxford University’s legalistic governance-bound response is wholly inadequate. Saying that the Union is an independent society’ and that the ‘university has no control over its events’ is a real failure of leadership. It is the University’s debating society! Get a grip...
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The Guardian
4 years
Blind student dragged from Oxford Union chamber 'by his ankles'
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5 years
FT on why Norway + faces “big challenges” as a Plan B. Leaves us as a ruletaker, paying steep fees, with full freedom of movement and unable to do trade deals. ie much like full EU membership minus any voting rights
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Jo Johnson
6 years
UK space launch capability one step closer today as Space Industry Bill completes journey through House of Commons. Next stop Royal Assent.
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Jo Johnson
6 years
Good news 4 science: 1. UK participants in existing projects guaranteed EU funding. 2. Projects approved to continue, with uninterrupted EU funding. 3. UK based orgs & people can bid for H2020 funding, participate in & lead consortia, post-exit, in '19+'20
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Jo Johnson
8 years
The #EUref will affect the prospects of a whole generation - my message for students ahead of Thursday. #StrongerIN
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Jo Johnson
5 years
Will the next gen of world leaders - the future Bill Clintons and Benazir Bhuttos - study in the UK? Home Office must recognise they’re a national asset - not just numbers in a net migration target. Immigration Bill is a chance to get this right.
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Jo Johnson
7 years
Delighted to be reappointed Minister of State for Universities & Science - looking forward to implementing HE & Research Act + the TEF
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Jo Johnson
6 years
Great night for London Conservatives. Labour losing momentum, missing all key targets - Wandsworth, Westminster & Barnet - and even going backwards in Hillingdon. #Election2018
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Jo Johnson
6 years
Farewell unis and science - our greatest national asset & best thing about this country. It's been an honour to have had this role - proud of all our reforms, especially the Teaching Excellence Framework & the Higher Education & Research Act. Brilliant successor in @SamGyimah
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Jo Johnson
5 years
All very well but UK is rapidly losing market share in international student higher education - needs to allow at least two years post study work (as other countries do) to be competitive.
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Jo Johnson
5 years
Brilliant move by PM @borisjohnson . Serious leadership on this issue. Congrats to everyone involved in this x-party campaign - especially ⁦ @PaulBlomfieldMP ⁩ & ⁦ @viviennestern ⁩ ⁦ @UUKIntl ⁩ - success at last!
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Jo Johnson
8 years
Delighted to announce EU students applying to English unis for 17/18 will be eligible for loans/grants for duration of course in normal way
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Jo Johnson
4 years
Very welcome news that international students who complete a PhD in the UK from next year will be allowed to stay in the UK for three more years work post-study.
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Jo Johnson
5 years
Huge effort on this issue over many years led by @UUKIntl is finally paying off - we’ve lost market share recently - from 12% in 2010 to 8% in 2016 - but these changes to our post study work offer will help bring us back into line with our big competitors around the world
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Jo Johnson
8 years
Delighted to be reappointed as Minister for Universities and Science jointly in DfE and BEIS @educationgovuk @bisgovuk
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Jo Johnson
8 years
Hello #BoatyMcBoatface ! The name lives on as the remotely operated vehicle aboard RRS Sir David Attenborough
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8 years
UK unis and our superb science science base key to our future as a knowledge economy - much stronger inside EU
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Jo Johnson
6 years
Space Industry Bill becomes law today, giving companies ability to launch satellites & space flights from UK soil for 1st time. Sites from Cornwall to Scotland bidding for funding to create our inaugural launch facility #LookUpAtTheStars
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Jo Johnson
4 years
The "crowding out" argument reappearing here ignores the fact that, far from squeezing out qualified domestic students, overseas students have made viable courses and research opportunities that would otherwise not be offered at all. That's because... 1/2
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Neil O'Brien MP
4 years
The Times covers my new report for @ukonward "no room at the top", which looks at U.K. universities dependence on overseas students.
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Jo Johnson
5 years
International students are a huge national asset for the UK - @BorisJohnson and Sir Graham Brady & Ken Clarke have already added their names to my new clause to the Immigration Bill, which restores the 2 yr post-study work visa. Hope all leadership candidates join them ASAP.
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Jo Johnson
6 years
Good news for science and innovation - additional £2.3bn investment announced today by PM will see public R&D spending increase as a share of GDP in each of next 5 years, towards our goal of 2.4% by 2027 and ultimately 3% of GDP
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5 years
BBC News - Jo Johnson: ‘Neither Remainers nor Leavers want this and that’s because it is the worst of all worlds'
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Jo Johnson
5 years
Early this morning (circa 1.24am) I asked the Chancellor what he thinks about a Norway-style Brexit for our most important sector - here’s his answer.
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Jo Johnson
5 years
Indeed...one of the UK’s only globally competitive sectors is being thrown under a bus. Settling for patchy, one-sided & precarious “equivalence” is going to consign our financial services industry to the regulatory third division - as I argued in @FT
@CER_EU
CER
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British financial services exports to the European Union could plunge by over half if Theresa May takes the UK out of the single market as planned. In this episode of the @CER_EU podcast, @SamuelMarcLowe traces the impact of Brexit sector by sector.
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Jo Johnson
7 years
Great news @ukhomeoffice commissioning 1st full assessment of intl students - they bring huge value to our unis & we want that to continue
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Jo Johnson
7 years
Police saved many many lives today - extraordinary response.
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Anna Soubry 🖤🤍🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇬🇧
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Jo Johnson arrived to vote as the attack happened was taken off his bike and bundled into the security check point hut
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Jo Johnson
7 years
Today we are launching the Rutherford Fund: a £100m fund to bring the best & brightest researchers and innovators to the UK. #UKRIvision
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Jo Johnson
8 years
New polar research ship to be named RRS Sir David Attenborough in tribute to a great broadcaster & natural scientist
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Jo Johnson
4 years
This is so good to see. UK formally launching new Graduate route today with effect from summer 2021. If you complete a degree, you can stay for 2 yrs (3 yrs for PhDs) & work at any skill level, then switch into work routes if you find a graduate job.
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4 years
Would be great if we could set up an emergency scheme to enable any willing students meeting suitable admissions requirements to transfer to UK institutions...
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Jo Johnson
4 years
Opportunity for the new Office for Talent. Is there a potential U.K. offer of help to be made here?
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Jo Johnson
3 years
Time to junk the Treasury’s ‘Equivalent or Lower Qualification’ rule that stops people reskilling by denying them funding for courses at the same level or below an award they already have. Makes a nonsense of the promised Lifelong Learning Entitlement.
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Jo Johnson
7 years
Will miss @SoranaBanana at NUS - great working with you over last 2 yrs
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Jo Johnson
5 years
My OpEd in @FT today on why Govt must defend our financial centre. Unrealistic to expect globally mobile institutions to enmesh themselves in our toxic debates. They want a transactional relationship with a rational UK state &a stable platform for growth. They’re not getting it.
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Jo Johnson
7 years
Great new agreement signed with European Space Agency to boost commercialisation activities at its new ECSAT centre in Harwell #ESACM16
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5 years
Delighted Sir Graham Brady is latest MP to put name to New Clause 18 in the Immigration Bill...Making the UK even more attractive to international students is something I hope everyone in Parliament can support.
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Jo Johnson
4 years
Thrilled to be appointed a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Centre for Business and Government ...great place to gain new perspectives on how we can make a success of #GlobalBritain .
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5 years
Let overseas students work for two years, urge cross-party MPs
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Jo Johnson
8 years
Seriously...Funding shortfall for universities and science in event of Brexit roughly equivalent to loss of a Research Council #StrongerIn
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Jo Johnson
5 years
Pride of Orpington
@BBCSport
BBC Sport
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This is how Dina Asher-Smith made history for Britain... 🥇 200m GOLD 🥇 #bbcathletics #WorldAthleticsChampionships
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Great to see Foreign Affairs Ctte back return of a 2yr post-study work visa - ⁦ @BorisJohnson ⁩ and Home Sec ⁦ @sajidjavid ⁩ have signed up to my new clause in the Immigration Bill to do the necessary. Come on ⁦ @Jeremy_Hunt ⁩..
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4 years
Terrific news - another huge boost to U.K. offer to international students. UKRI-funded postgraduate programmes to open to international students.
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Jo Johnson
8 years
It's Theresa May. No question. #TM4PM @TheresaMay2016
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Jo Johnson
8 years
Big decision. Let's make it work.
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Jo Johnson
5 years
We need to upgrade our post study work offer to international students, so that we at least match what major competitors are offering. OECD stats show our market share down to 8% from 12% in 2010. Huge lost opportunity for #globalBritain
@timeshighered
Times Higher Education
5 years
France has “rolled out the red carpet” for Australian students and researchers, with the nation’s HE minister highlighting opportunities south of the English Channel and suggesting UK will be shut out of key European research networks by Brexit
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Jo Johnson
7 years
I agree with Vince
@SkyPoliticsHub
Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge
7 years
Vince Cable calls Labour's stance on tuition fees "ridiculously populist" #Ridge
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3 years
India sets out plans for 50% enrolment in higher education... and route to entry for 'top 100' foreign unis as key step to becoming a 'knowledge society'. Looking forward to discussing #NEP2020 with Cabinet Minister for Education @DrRPNishank on Mon 2pm GMT @TheNehruCentre
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Ministry of Education
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Under the dynamic leadership of Hon'ble PM Shri @narendramodi ji #NEP2020 was launched.
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Important work ahead: ensuring UK leadership in research and innovation and promoting teaching excellence, social mobility and choice in HE
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7 years
Today we launch consultation on a new regulatory system for universities, with freedom of speech duty at its heart
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Jo Johnson
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Indeed. Space sector worth £14bn to UK & employs 36,500. Growing 8-10% p.a. HMG investing heavily & committed to European Space Agency
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Jo Johnson
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Sir Mark Walport is to be the 1st CEO of UK Research & Innovation - Congratulations @uksciencechief
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Very sad to hear of passing of India’s former finance minister @arunjaitley - a great man who leaves behind many friends in London and will be much missed in UK-India relations.
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@SoranaBanana Excellent... will be there
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Great that international student visa numbers rising by 8% in yr ending Sept2017. Especially good to see Indian numbers up 27% after falls over the last five or so years.
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We promised science and innovation would be at heart of new industrial strategy - PM backs that with new £2bn for science by 2020
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One marathon, hundreds of experiments & millions inspired – #WelcomeHomeTim @astro_timpeake @esa @spacegovuk @bisgovuk
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3 years
If PM Narendra Modi's Govt does little else but implement the reforms in the National Education Policy, the future will belong to India, according to the great @pbmehta . Looking forward to discussing #NEP2020 with India's Education Minister Hon @DrRPNishank this Monday at 2pm GMT
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Ministry of Education
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#NEPOutreach Under the dynamic leadership of Hon'ble PM Shri @narendramodi ji #NEP2020 was launched.
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Politicians must defend our financial services industry, a great national asset that’s not defending itself: my OpEd for @FT
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UK aiming to capture 10% of global space sector by 2030 - supporting space will be key to our industrial strategy #ESACM16
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Jo Johnson
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Orpington looking green and leafy - out and about today with great team in Farnborough
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Academic freedom -which we've just entrenched in statute in Higher Ed &Research Bill 2017! - is core to success +better protected than ever
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Jo Johnson
3 years
Spectacular rise of China up the rankings of the UK's research partners, from 9th to 2nd place in less than a decade. Now challenging the US for no.1 slot.
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Jo Johnson
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Upbeat presentation from @esa this morning. New commercial opps opening up for UK space sector - and our industrial strategy, with £50m support for satellite launch services from UK soil, will help us towards our goal of a 10% share of global space market by 2030, cf 6.5% today.
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Jo Johnson
6 years
One of many highlights from David Willetts' book launch tonight, a quote from Karl Marx from 1875 : "if universities are 'free', that only means defraying the cost of the education of the bourgeoisie via general tax receipts."
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Lots of good questions from year 5&6 at St Mary Cray Primary School ...”what’s your favourite law?” is a hard one..
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Delighted to be re-adopted earlier today ... as the @Conservatives candidate in Orpington #GE2017
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