The European Commission has published an In-depth Report on Environmental Citizen Science (December 2013) as part of its Science for Environmental Policy programme. Refers to natural history museums a number of times.
The UK department for education is consulting on science post-16 A Levels. Ofqual, the UK agency for educational quality, is running a complementary consultation on A level redevelopment, informed by a review of A levels by Prof Mark Smith/...
.../who recommended major changes in maths in particular. Other reports on research from Ofqual of interest include
The UK Association for Science Education has published ASPIRES: Young People's Science and Career Aspirations 10-14 (December 2013), accompanied by a series of case studies.
The UK Parliament's Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee published the report of an Inquiry on Open Access in September 2013 (plus a second volume of evidence), followed by a UK Government response. This adds to the development of UK policy outlined in a post earlier in 2013:
