Science and Engineering Education - Grants Paid 2008-9

2008 - 2009
Total	£14,819,369
Total payments made this year (from new and previous grants)
Birmingham Local Education Authority	£276,781
Towards the Collegiate Academy Partnership.
Gatsby Technical Education Projects (GTEP)	£5,841,729
Towards core office costs and GTEP programmes, including: the Science Enhancement Programme; the Physics Enhancement Programme; the creation of the National STEM Centre in York; and support for ACME and SCORE.
Mathematics in Education & Industry (MEI)	£120,000
Towards the Teaching Advanced Mathematics programme.
New Engineering Foundation (NEF)	£999,550
Towards core costs and the delivery of a range of programmes in the FE sector.
Royal Academy of Engineering	£872,505
Towards the Academy’s education work and the Sainsbury Management Fellowship schemes.
STEMNET	£82,350
Towards promoting good practice from after-school science and engineering clubs.
University of Buckingham	£51,450
Towards the costs of three research studies into physics education.
University of Cambridge	£5,386,260
Towards: the running costs of the Manufacturing Professors’ Forum; the ‘Growmore’ initiative; and a £5 million contribution towards a new building for the Institute for Manufacturing.
University of Middlesex	£741,000
Towards the costs of the Technology Enhancement Programme (TEP).
University of Oxford	£148,138
Towards a programme to promote materials science in schools and colleges.
University of Sussex	£210,074
Towards research to assess the extent of the patent protection failure problem and a fellowship in ‘Understanding and Improving Technology Transfer in the UK’.
The beneficiaries below received grant payments totalling £50,000 or less
The Royal Society	£25,219
University of York	£48,917
Small grants were paid to other organisations in this category totalling £15,396