David Willetts is expected to hold talks with military commanders, according to The Times. The Conservative science minister, who is making a brief visit on the outward and return stints of a trip to the Antarctic, is also due to host a dinner with...

February 2012 Last updated at 08:34 ET David Willetts will stop over in the Falklands en route to the British Antarctic Survey in Rothera Science Minister David Willetts has become the latest UK politician to announce a visit to the Falklands. On...

Put quite simply, Vince Cable and David Willetts both know that injecting market forces into higher education will be the only way that reform of universities will happen. Labour under Tony Blair attempted to reform through targets, such as the...

In the other blue corner stands the far more thoughtful and evidence-based view of universities minister David Willetts, who understands that access policies need to be wider and more sophisticated. Given that the prime minister himself has expressed...

Ebdon is an academic from the University of Bedfordshire, who has annoyed several elite universities by threatening to cut the fees they can charge if they don't admit enough applicants from poor backgrounds. Despite the fact that he has the support of...

Foreign Office minister Jeremy Browne is set to make the trip to the South Atlantic as part of the ceremonies. While the British government has condemned Argentina's decision to persuade South American countries to ban Falkland Island flagged ships from...