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UK space launch programme receives £50 million boost in Government’s Industrial Strategy

A £50 million programme to enable new satellite launch services and low gravity spaceflights from UK spaceports will boost the economy and inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers...

Monday, 27 November 2017 13:18

Lords committee to ask about the dangers of artificial intelligence

Implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for cyber security and for military and defence purposes to be explored in two Lords Artificial Intelligence Committee evidence sessions...

Monday, 27 November 2017 13:16

AoC responds to Industrial Strategy announcement

Speaking in response to today's Industrial Strategy announcement, David Hughes, Chief Executive of the Association of Colleges, said...

Monday, 27 November 2017 12:38

ASCL comment on GCSE computer science

Commenting on the consultation published by Ofqual today about revised arrangements for GCSE computer science, Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said...

Monday, 27 November 2017 12:31

The Chennai 6 found not Guilty. The Foreign Office must now get them home says UKIP

The Chennai 6, former servicemen who have spent the past 4 years in an Indian jail, have been acquitted by an Indian court...

Monday, 27 November 2017 12:30

IoD: Government takes big first step, but many miles left on journey to build Industrial Strategy

Responding to the launch of the Government’s Industrial Strategy White Paper, Stephen Martin, Director General of the Institute of Directors, said...

Monday, 27 November 2017 12:22

Government must giving working people a say in its new industrial strategy, says TUC

Commenting on today’s (Monday) white paper on industrial strategy, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said...

Monday, 27 November 2017 12:02

Government's Industrial Strategy is just re-announced policies & old spending commitments - Rebecca Long-Bailey

Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, responding to the publication of the Government’s Industrial Strategy today, said...

Monday, 27 November 2017 12:01

GMB General Secretary Tim Roache criticises "joke" industrial strategy

Tim Roache, GMB General Secretary, said: "Greater productivity through technological advances could mean a better work-life balance...

Monday, 27 November 2017 11:58

Mayor cracks down on opening of new hot-food takeaways around schools

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is helping to tackle childhood obesity by cracking down on new hot food takeaways near schools...

Monday, 27 November 2017 11:56