Joint advisory highlights increased globalised threat of ransomware
The NCSC and international partners observe an increase in sophisticated, high-impact ransomware incidents against critical infrastructure organisations.
Updated: Fri Feb 11 2022
New deal with Singapore to support investment and trade
Two research and innovation leaders in the UK and Singapore have joined forces in a deal to mutually support investment and trade between the two nations.
Updated: Fri Feb 11 2022
We're hiring a Director of Technology
We need a Director of Technology to be part of our team - a new Senior Civil Service role centred on technology, using it to deliver, operate and transform. Emma Stace explains what this entails, the types of skills needed and what's in it for applicants.
Updated: Fri Feb 11 2022
Dstl announces 2022 satellite launch
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) will launch its first satellites in 2022 in the next phase of growing the UK's space research capabilities.
Updated: Thu Feb 10 2022
How we put our users at the heart of our vision
At the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) one of our core roles is to award funding to organisations who do the detailed delivery work to achieve policy objectives. For example, the Towns fund delivers £3.6 billion to ...
Updated: Thu Feb 10 2022
IPPR - Revealed: 72 per cent fall in entry-level apprenticeship uptake since 2014
Government is urged to not leave youngest behind' this National Apprenticeships Week by boosting access to apprenticeships
Updated: Thu Feb 10 2022
Recently launched Starlink satellites hit by geomagnetic storm
On Friday 4 February 2022, a geomagnetic storm impacted recently launched Starlink satellites.
Updated: Thu Feb 10 2022
Remote Working and Opportunities: An Apprentices Journey
In November 2020, I joined the Ministry of Justice as a Level 4 Cyber Security Apprentice, and now over a year later, I am reaching the final stages of my apprenticeship. It's been a journey, I didn't have any formal ...
Updated: Thu Feb 10 2022
Space cluster to attract jobs and back mission to level up the UK
Space cluster for the north-west will bring multiple, sustained economic benefits to the region.
Updated: Thu Feb 10 2022
The Institute talks...about becoming a paramedic apprentice
You can subscribe to The Institute talks podcast on Amazon Music, Apple podcast, Spotify and all other major podcast platforms. You can read transcripts for this podcast episode on Podbean. In this episode of The Institute talks, we talk about the invaluable experience gained through ...
Updated: Thu Feb 10 2022
What could the future of the UKs mobile market look like?
The headline picked up in Ofcom's discussion documents on the future of mobile markets and spectrum was that the UK regulator seems open to the idea of idea of mobile operator mergers, as Ofcom it is now clarifying our position on mobile consolidation.
Updated: Thu Feb 10 2022
Bridging the digital divide: we need a smarter approach to data literacy and skills
Chris Greenwood, UK Director for NetApp, a leading Cloud-led, data management company, looks at how data skills can bridge the digital divide.
Updated: Wed Feb 09 2022
IEA - Start drilling, says energy analyst as North Sea oil fields get go ahead
Andy Mayer, Energy Analyst at free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, commented on reports that six North Sea oil and gas fields are to be approved for drilling
Updated: Wed Feb 09 2022
IFG - Government must seize opportunity to get school reform back on
A decade since Michael Gove passed legislation allowing all schools to convert to academy status, a new Institute for Government report sets out a programme of reform to build a coherent all-academy system.
Updated: Wed Feb 09 2022
IPPR: NHS integration white paper is important move away from misguided policies of past decade
IPPR has welcomed the government's proposals to make the health service more locally accountable, and to better integrate health and social care, expected to be published in a white paper today (Wednesday), but called for better support for the health and care workforce.
Updated: Wed Feb 09 2022
My apprenticeship helped me find what I want to do for the rest of my life
Saskia is a level 3 advanced engineering apprentice and a new member of the Institute's apprentice panel, whose role is to ensure that the views of apprentices are represented across the work and governance of the Institute. Read on to ...
Updated: Wed Feb 09 2022
My Coding Journey
Prior to embarking on my apprenticeship journey, I was working in the Fire and Security sector. The sector was good, but I was looking for a more challenging role, a role that will push me outside my comfort zone as ...
Updated: Wed Feb 09 2022
Porn Law a threat to online privacy and security, says IEA economist
Matthew Lesh, Head of Public Policy at the Institute of Economic Affairs, responded to reports that the Online Safety Bill will require all adult websites to ask users for age verification
Updated: Wed Feb 09 2022
UK and South Korea sign an agreement to bolster supply chains
On 7 February, International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan hosted the inaugural UK-South Korea FTA Committee in London and met her Korean counterpart, Yeo Han-koo, to discuss increased trade and collaboration in key areas such as digital, the environment and supporting small business.
Updated: Wed Feb 09 2022
Adam Smith Inst - Resurrecting the Porn Laws will shaft civil liberties
Daniel Pryor, Head of Research at the Adam Smith Institute, responded to news that the Government is extending age verification provisions in the Online Safety Bill to all commercial pornography sites
Updated: Tue Feb 08 2022
Being part of developing apprenticeships
Lesley-Anne Alexander is Vice Chair of the Institute's care services route panel and former CEO of the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB). While at RNIB, Lesley-Anne was instrumental in uniting the fragmented sight loss sector through the development ...
Updated: Tue Feb 08 2022
Civitas - Top Brexit economist predicts 69billion boost to UK economy from new trade agreement 37 times higher than official
Government modelling of benefits from Free Trade Agreements miserably low' according to Professor Patrick Minford, well known Brexit economist. Government figures biased' toward EU and against the rest of the world.
Updated: Tue Feb 08 2022
Giving people in prison access to their financial transactions
Since February this year, the Content Hub team has been working feverishly to give people in prison improved access to their personal information, and now it's alive and kicking, we want to tell you about it. If you haven't heard ...
Updated: Tue Feb 08 2022
IEA - Road pricing should be implemented as soon as possible, economist urges
Professor Philip Booth, Director of the Vinson Centre for the Public Understanding of Economics and Senior Academic Fellow at the IEA, commented on the Transport Committee's new report
Updated: Tue Feb 08 2022
IFS - Governments proposed amendment to social care cap puts more people at risk of catastrophic care costs, particularly tho
The government is proposing to change the legislation underlying the new 86,000 cap that people will have to pay towards their own social care costs. The amendment means that receipt of means-tested support to pay for care will not count towards the cap.
Updated: Tue Feb 08 2022