Comparative Table of Parliamentary TA Institutions

UNITED KINGDOM - THE PARLIAMENTARY OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 

Topics

POST groups its work activities into six main clusters, listed below with example projects. Many of the subjects of POST´s attention fall into more than one of these categories.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND HEALTH

ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY

PHYSICAL SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND IT

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT

Also falling within this cluster is a special major project that POST has been running since 2007 concerned with science and technology capacity building in African parliaments, especially the parliament of Uganda. Much of this work has been in collaboration with the UK´s Royal Society. Further details are on POST´s web site. The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission has also provided fellowships to enable African parliamentary staff to spend three months with POST and the Houses of Parliament.

SCIENCE POLICY

 

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