This runs an "Intellectual Exchanges" programme and a "Next Generation Leaders" programme, catering mainly for visiting government ministers and bureaucrats.
"North Wales will also benefit from the additional £32m investment in housing, £5m to promote green growth across Wales and £10m for the next generation broadband programme".
A few have woken up to their limitations, and are thinking about the next generation of programmes, which might require children who are about to leave school to go for vocational training in exchange for continuing to receive the stipend, or encouraging cities to add an urban top-up to the nationwide scheme, perhaps paid for by the municipal authority.
Indeed, next generation sequencing programmes (such as the 1000 Genomes Project) are now identifying considerable numbers of "DM" mutations in apparently healthy individuals (MacArthur et al. 2012; Xue et al. 2012).
Next year equals next generation.
This last point is especially important as the nation needs more outstanding schools to become Teaching Schools to train the next generation of teachers in the School Direct programme.
Taking the lead in the development of the next generation of reactors is an international programme called the Generation IV International Forum (GIF), a collaboration between the governments of America, Argentina, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, France, Japan, Russia, South Africa, South Korea and Switzerland, plus Euratom, the EU's nuclear body.
"We're now transitioning assets to support the November launch of our next generation Mars rover, Curiosity," said Dave Lavery, programme executive for Solar System exploration.
These will probably involve upgrading the existing rocket with a more powerful upper-stage whilst at the same time laying down a firm development programme for a next generation rocket that benefits from substantially reduced production costs.
"It is not only a programme for the next generation of Jordanians," says Layali Abu-Sir.
