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Vocational qualifications: a rationalisation too far? (31/01/2012)

Last week, the Department for Education (DfE) confirmed that only the very highest quality vocational qualifications were to be included in future secondary school Performance League Tables. The move was in response to a...

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The ‘new Internet’: global, ubiquitous, and participatory (27/01/2012)

The Internet economy of the G20 group of nations is projected to reach $4.2 trillion in 2016, nearly double the size it was in 2010, according to The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in its latest report, The Digital Manifesto:...

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A question of time and tide (23/01/2012)

The solar year is measured between two March equinoxes and has a duration of 365.2422 days. The Gregorian calendar, which is universally adopted throughout the world, is 365 days in length. So, unless a correction is made, our...

Michael Gove heralds an ICT education revolution (13/01/2012)

Following my comments in a previous leader about Cisco's survey into young peoples' attitudes to mobile computing and the Internet, I couldn't exactly ignore education secretary Michael Gove's unequivocal attack last week on the current state of...

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Life's necessities: air, water, food, shelter - and the Internet (04/01/2012)

Cisco's most recent Connected World Technology Report revealed that one in three college students and working professionals aged 30 years and younger considers the Internet to be as important as fundamental human resources like...

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'Bring your own device' - a threat to, or boon for IT departments? (19/12/2011)

With Christmas almost upon us, it is likely that thousands of employees will come back to work in the New Year with new gadgets, smartphones, tablets and laptops. This time of the year...

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Bringing it back home: the solution to global supply chain vulnerabilities? (07/12/2011)

The fragility of global manufacturing supply chains - particularly their vulnerability in the face of natural disasters - has been brought sharply into focus recently, with flooding affecting industry around the Thai capital...

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Cybercrime: the government lays out its stall (05/12/2011)

Currently, around 6 per cent of the UK’s GDP is enabled by the Internet and this is set to grow. But with this opportunity comes greater threats. Online crime, including intellectual property theft, costs the UK economy...

SMEs - relief at last from the credit squeeze? (28/11/2011)

Are we witnessing a damascene moment for the government as it struggles with sovereign debt and the need for growth? Manufacturing – that long neglected engine of our economy – is at the centre of the...

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Will big prizes and financial incentives inspire a new generation of engineers? (17/11/2011)

The Prime Minister appears to be going out on a limb to associate his office with the campaign to inspire the next generation of engineers, announcing last week the foundation of a major international engineering prize - the...

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SMEs are urged to help UK ‘trade its way to growth’ (10/11/2011)

It would be cynical to suggest that the timing of the launch of the government’s 'Financial Fitness' small business growth campaign had anything to do with the CBI's SME Quarterly Trends survey, published in the same...

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Of fiscal lows and cultural highs (31/10/2011)

Sentiment has deteriorated sharply among UK manufacturers in anticipation of significant falls in activity over the next three months. So said the CBI last week when it released details of its latest Quarterly Industrial Trends...

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Energy: will we ever get a level playing field? (24/10/2011)

Energy issues never seem to be out of the headlines, do they? Last week, energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne got into a huddle with the Big Six and came out of it with a disappointingly anodyne statement for...

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Investing in the ‘High Value’ manufacturing economy (17/10/2011)

The annual technology networking event organised by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) – Innovate 2011 – was buzzing last week; and not a whiff of recession as eager start-ups and established hi-tech firms,...

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Manufacturing: the prospects and the promises (04/10/2011)

According to the latest Markit/CIPS UK Manufacturing PMI, published last week, manufacturing production unexpectedly rose in September, though a large part of the increase in output was apparently only achieved through the...

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The BAE redundancies: how bad for UK engineering? (03/10/2011)

BAE Systems dropped something of a bombshell last week when it announced nearly 3,000 job losses within its Military Air & Information and Shared Services businesses. Most of the jobs are to go at the Brough, Samlesbury,...

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Green cars get a hydrogen 'lift' (26/09/2011)

With concerns over electric vehicle battery costs and performance (let alone the price of the drivetrain) continuing to depress the electric vehicle market, it is not surprising to see that other viable green alternative - the...

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The UK engineering skills shortage: true or false? (13/09/2011)

Fewer than half of graduates who leave university with a degree in engineering are working within the field six months later, according to statistics presented to the British Educational Research Association’s (BERA's)...

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Apprenticeships: government vows to sweep away red tape (12/09/2011)

This government is certainly keen to be seen slashing red tape. We’ve had the recent Red Tape Challenge inviting comment from all sectors of the economy on unnecessary and burdensome bureaucracy, which, judging from my recent correspondence, some of...

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An exhaustive search for higher engine efficiency (31/08/2011)

Even the most efficient internal combustion engine can only convert about one-third of the energy derived from fossil fuels into the mechanical kinetic energy needed to power a motor vehicle. In recent years, BMW, under its...