NET has also undertaken commissions for educational research and development and publishes opinion pieces on matters of national importance in a series of publications known as Counterblasts. (netacademies.net)
In fact, Canada could use a standing body like Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, which is mandated to investigate scientific matters of national importance, suggests Canada West Foundation vice-president of research Will Kimber, who used to work for the agency. (canadianbusiness.com)
Crucial matters of national importance, like aviation or press freedom, are shipped out to supposedly independent figures for extended periods of rumination, while barely - there controversies, such as GCSE marking, are quickly dropped by MPs once an independent investigation has been ruled out. (totalpolitics.com)