Gordon Brown announces new targets to double numbers taking three GCSE science subjects 28 February 2009

The Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced ambitious targets to increase the number of pupils studying sciences and maths in state schools, as part of a drive to ensure Britain produces "the great scientists of tomorrow".

Read it in The Telegraph (February 28, 2009).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4864077/Gordon-Brown-announces-new-targets-to-double-numbers-taking-three-GCSE-science-subjects.html

and here at the BBC website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7915233.stm