When IT Meets Politics
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IT in the Tory Candidates' Manifestos
- Winsafe Ltd 29 May 2019 -
5/10 for the IfA Digital Apprenticeships Standards Review
- Winsafe Ltd 25 May 2019 -
Are you proud or ashamed to work in IT?
- Winsafe Ltd 19 May 2019
I added a comment on Dominic Rabb's inclusion of degree apprenticeships in his call for Fairness and Choice to my recent blog on the IfA apprenticeship review. In his opening campaign letter Rory ...
The Statutory Review of the Digital Apprenticeship standards inherited by the Institute for Apprenticeships answers less than half the question. Much of the question (e.g. allowable costs) is ...
I like the Tech UK response to the Doteveryone report but we also need the 80% of optimists to also join the political party of their choice and work to produce policies that will: Address the ...
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Brexit: golden rules and taboo questions
- Winsafe Ltd 10 May 2019 -
Will Advertisers and Insurers hold Social Media Platforms to Account after Governments fail
- Winsafe Ltd 23 Feb 2019 -
Fit for whose purpose? Submit your views on the Initial National Cybersecurity Skills Strategy
- Winsafe Ltd 18 Feb 2019 -
A Skills Policy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Winsafe Ltd 06 Feb 2019 -
Digital Britain Needs You
- Winsafe Ltd 01 Feb 2019 -
Addressing the shortages of construction skills that threaten Broadband Roll-out
- Winsafe Ltd 29 Dec 2018 -
Using technology to address the demographic time bomb
- Winsafe Ltd 21 Dec 2018
Amid the repetition of mendacious claims, meaningless mantras and fake news, some Brexit questions are off limits. No wants publicity for answers which reveal what is feallt at stake and for whom.
The Shareholder Backlash Most digerati appear to be in a state of denial over the scale and nature of the damage being done by the abuse of social media. It is fuelling family breakdown, mental ...
The meeting illustrated the difficulty of the task the DCMS team will have reconciling the need of MoD and GCHQ for patriotic cyberwarriors and the need of the rest of us for the skills to protect ...
The pace of change in the skills in demand (as machine intelligence, now called AI, matures) is matched only by the pace of change in educational technology (using machine intelligence to transform ...
BT has announced plans to train another 3,000 apprentices on top of 3,500 engineers, including apprentices, hired last year. The announcement included an update on BT’s plans for new and upgraded ...
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, ...
The big challenge for 2019 is not Brexit. It is the demographic time bomb. Britain can no more leave "Europe" than it makes sense to tie our economy to a protectionist "ever closer Union". I will ...
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Happy Christmas and a Hokey Cokey New Year
- Winsafe Ltd 19 Dec 2018 -
Have your Christmas Presents vanished from your doorstep?
- Winsafe Ltd 18 Dec 2018 -
Education and training to help build the future, not just preserve the past
- Winsafe Ltd 05 Sep 2018 -
Does freedom of movement discourage skills development and depress wages?
- Winsafe Ltd 25 Aug 2018 -
Why all the fuss about AI?
- Winsafe Ltd 21 Aug 2018
We have had a barrage of reports and articles telling us what the various types of Brexit deal really mean, None of them come remotely close to this for clarity and vision. That from the British ...
So far only one of the presents we have ordered on-line this year failed to arrive - more than one e-mails telling us of delivery slots arrived after the parcel. It was therefore only chance that ...
Unless you understand the past you cannot make sense of the present let alone make sensible preparations for an uncertain future. Unfortunately most discussion on education and training policy is ...
I recently looked at the Hays Index for 2017 to put the UK skills situation into international context. I strongly recommend reading the report on "Regional dynamics of the Global Labour market - ...
Why is there so much publicity for 40 year old AI techniques, albeit with more processing power, bigger data files and more reliable communications lines?