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Government gives green light for Northern Futures UTC

By Kayleigh Bateman 02 Mar 2015

George Osborne unveils plan for Northern Futures University Technical College to boost IT and healthcare science careers in north-east of England Read More

A call to rebuild the Department for Education and Skills

By Philip Virgo 09 Sep 2021

In the light of the forthcoming party conferences, and rumoured reshuffles, I hope the Government can quickly move on to making the UK once again a world-leader in technological education and ... Read More

Skills and Employment Policy for the digital age

By Philip Virgo 28 Oct 2021

The pace of change has accelerated and centralised planning can no longer keep up. Widening  workforce skills gaps require investment on a scale akin to that made in higher education but structured ... Read More

How can schools help the UK’s post-Covid recovery in the economy and employment?

By Philip Virgo 10 Jul 2020

Most of those leaving education at age 18 or 21 this year do not have the technical and practical skills they need to find work at this time of pandemic recession.  To redress this, Government must ... Read More

Your election choice: Protectionist Stagflation or Radical (Technology enabled) Change

By Philip Virgo 30 Nov 2019

We are promised forests of magic money trees instead of plans to use technology to do more for less ... Meanwhile most on-line health systems are "As user friendly as a cornered rat" Read More

Building consensus round skills and employment policies that work

By Philip Virgo 16 Apr 2022

successful implementation ... requires that ministers instruct their officials to give priority to actions that involve co-operation across departmental boundaries and to listen to employers and ... Read More

Reskilling those whose futures have been destroyed by the Covid lockdown

By Philip Virgo 01 Jun 2020

The Covid lockdown has demonstrated the potential of Educational Technology to support remote learning and workplace training but the focus on “free” access threatens to destroy the revenue streams ... Read More

A UK Strategy for the 4th Industrial Revolution?

By Philip Virgo 31 May 2018

Those who attacked my analysis because it undermined all they held dear (from “the examination treadmill” to the “PhD rat race”) have successfully resisted change to Government academic funding and ... Read More

Addressing the shortages of construction skills that threaten Broadband Roll-out

By Philip Virgo 29 Dec 2018

Problems with quality, not just quantity threaten to derail full fibre roll out as they did cable TV roll out 25 years ago. Over the past couple of years broadband roll-out projects (BT, Virgin, ... Read More