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Learning right skills for the future job (well-paid) job market |
Pupils up and down the country will benefit from the UK’s first National Centre for Computing Education led by British experts, it has been revealed. A consortium made up of STEM Learning, the British Computing Society and the Raspberry Pi Foundation, has been chosen as the provider for the project, which is backed by £84m of government investment. The Centre will work with the University of Cambridge, while Google will also support the project with a further £1million. According to the BCS; ‘This level of investment is unprecedented anywhere in the world for teacher training in the field of computing and computer science. It is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the way that computer science is taught’. |
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DfE: Tech experts to provide National Centre for Computing Education BCS welcomes funding announcement for National Centre for Computing Education DfE: Teachers to benefit from £8m initiative to boost skills ahead of T Levels roll-out Schools Minister announces boost to computer science teaching Vital for the economy and UK’s future How can 10 years of education not provide these skills? Channel their enthusiasm at a young age Reducing confusion of route to gaining technical skills Celebrating digital skills in Welsh teaching Review of publicly funded digital skills qualifications |
Editor’s choice of other ICT items of note: |
GDS: Digital Marketplace turns 4 - what we've achieved SOCITM: 2019 will be the watershed year for public sector cloud adoption |
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‘Small’ is (probably) less risk |
Around 200 industry experts gathered at the first ever small nuclear reactor (SMR) conference to explore the investment opportunities of SMRs - taking SMRs from concept to construction. Innovative small nuclear power stations could radically reduce the costs associated with the nuclear sector. The first small reactors could be built as soon as 2030, with potential for exports worldwide. To help commercialise these revolutionary reactors, Nuclear Energy Minister Richard Harrington announced the next crucial steps, including:
These new small reactors, which can be built in factories off-site, could be placed on a footprint similar in size to a football stadium and add to the UK’s diverse low-carbon energy mix. Earlier this year, the Expert Finance Working Group presented its findings to government about how SMRs could be financed, laying the groundwork for the sustainable environment needed for small nuclear technologies to come forward. The Group reported that the UK could be well placed to develop these “First of a Kind” small reactor projects and that they could be commercially viable propositions. |
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BEIS: Industry experts assemble in bid to make cutting-edge nuclear technology a reality The future will be mainly electric Unite: Ministers need to step in to save Moorside nuclear power station project Small modular reactors – Rolls-Royce Advanced Nuclear Technologies - GOV.UK |
SME Supplier Locator update... | ||
UK Government and public sector spend with SME’s is continually on the increase and by 2020, it is the stated intent of Cabinet Office that £1 of every £3 spent on government contracts goes to SME’s. Against this ambitious backdrop, the WiredGov Supplier Locator service has been developed specifically to embrace the SME Agenda and provide the ideal platform for SME’s to promote their services, solutions, accreditation and success stories directly to our ever increasing audience across all government and public sector verticals and Tier 1 suppliers. Recent arrivals to the SME Supplier Locator service include:
Click here to find out more. |
Joining his comrades after a century ‘alone’ |
An unknown British soldier has been afforded a final resting place 100 years after he was killed during World War 1 The burial, with full military honours, took place on 8 November 2018 at Buttes News British Cemetery near Ypres, Belgium. Members of the current day Royal Regiment of Fusiliers formed a bearer party to escort their fallen former comrade into the cemetery within a coffin draped in the union flag. The Reverend Stuart Richards CF, Chaplain to the 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers conducted the service and paid tribute to the sacrifice the soldier made, and by so many more, 100 years ago. The service was organised by the MOD’s Joint Casualty & Compassionate Centre, part of Defence Business Services, who work to identify the 40 plus sets of remains of British personnel found on historical World War 1 battlefields, and where possible, trace their surviving families. Support services for veterans & their families The Commonwealth War Graves Commission who own & maintain the Buttes News British Cemetery, will now care for the soldier in perpetuity. |
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MoD: Unknown warrior from World War 1 given final resting place ~ Dstl recalls the contribution of the Civil Service during WW1 ~ HMT: £19m package to mark armistice centenary ~ WAG: Secondary schools commemorate the First World War ~ DIFD: UK aid to protect 7,000 Commonwealth veterans of the British Armed Forces from extreme poverty ~ Foreign Secretary Lends Support to Military Charity Campaign to Honour Commonwealth Soldiers ~ Civil Service: 11/11/18 - Armistice Day: how “we will remember them”, a century on ~ WAG: Centenary Trees project to commemorate end of First World War ~ CADW lists rare war memorials as Wales remembers the end of the First World War ) |
Editorial commentary: Its 1973 all over again with EEC/EU (allegedly) demanding access to UK fishing waters |
The Daily Telegraph reported last week that (allegedly) the EU will demand continued ‘wide-ranging’ access to UK fishing waters as the price of agreement with Mrs May’s humiliating EU Backstop Plan. One can understand the EU wishing to ‘cherry pick’ such a deal when one considers the impact the loss of fishing rights will have on their Western Europe’s fishing industries, but it will make the 17+m people who voted for Brexit wonder just what benefit(s) we will get in return. (EditCom: A fall-back to ‘No Deal’, if the UK’s ‘Soft Offer’ is rejected, is not as ‘bad’ as Remainers have ‘painted’). One does have to wonder why Mrs May didn’t go for the ‘Norway option’ which would achieve the same benefit for a Backstop, while ensuring the UK would be ‘outside the Customs Union, the Common Fisheries Policy and the Common Agricultural policy’ and obviate the need for a transition period. (B4B: The EEA Option: “Norway to Canada” Could Be the Way to Go by Rob Lee ) |
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