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In the long run, it's nearly everything

Posted by: Paul McKelvie, Posted on: 30 January 2015 - Categories: Innovation

Commissioner Paul McKelvie introduces the latest competition in the UKCES Futures Programme, looking at innovation in manufacturing. Innovation could be one of the most important factors you haven’t thought of. The image of innovation is often the inventor in the …

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College visit for UKCES Commissioner

Posted by: Sean Taggart, Posted on: 19 January 2015 - Categories: Further Education, Youth employment
Sean and Sue with a student

As a UKCES Commissioner and owner of a small business, I often feel somewhat removed from further education and so when the opportunity arose for me to visit Northbrook College in Worthing, I jumped at it. I was given the …

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Our new home at GOV.UK

Posted by: Ken Manson, Posted on: 7 January 2015 - Categories: Growth
Image showing screen with the old and new UKCES blogs

Hello and welcome to the UKCES blog, plumping up the cushions and making ourselves at home in our new place at GOV.UK. We moved our main website to GOV.UK in...

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