Letter: National Science Week: was it empty rhetoric or a cause for celebration?
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: As we come to the end of the UK's first week celebrating science, engineering and technology, may I thank the thousands of people and organisations who have contributed to its success. It has been difficult to open a newspaper without being aware of set7 , and the radio and television companies have also played a major part, for which I am most grateful.
Science, engineering and technology are essential to our economy, central to our children's education and now - increasingly - essential components of our culture. Science gives all of us fresh ways of looking at the world.
I am particularly grateful to William Waldegrave and his department for funding this British Association week. There is a great deal more to do in advancing public appreciation of science, and I hope that we may all do it together.
Yours sincerely,
ANNE McLAREN
President
British Association for the Advancement of Science
London, W1
25 March
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