Higher education: Preparing students to be work-ready
Alison Watson, Programme Leader for BA Business at Arden University shares her views on how the higher education sector is helping to prepare students to be work-ready
The update of the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) beyond 2021
Susanna Kaasinen, Project Manager at the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission – Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) explains the update of the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) beyond 2021
The impact of exogenous factors on high rise housing estates
Dr Gideon Bolt from the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University details the impact of exogenous factors on high rise housing estates.
Digital transformation, collaboration and innovation: Making government work better for everyone
Kevin Cunnington, Director General of the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) provides an update on how digital transformation is helping to make government work better for everyone
All about the adult long-tailed knifefish S. macrurus
Graciela A. Unguez and Chiann-Ling C. Yeh from New Mexico State University explain that sarcomere disassembly is a naturally occurring event during tail regeneration in the adult long-tailed knifefish S. macrurus.
Workplace mental health and job security should be measured, says new report
Job security, workplace mental health, and how well-supported workers feel by their employer, should be monitored annually by the government, a report led by the RSA and the Carnegie UK Trust recommends
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs): A persistent environmental health problem
Carolyn R. Klocke, Postdoctoral Scholar and Pamela J. Lein, Professor at University of California, Davis both argue that polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a persistent environmental health problem today
Energy in Europe: A SmartNet to boost the green revolution
The EU-funded SmartNet energy project provides a vision on future ancillary services from distribution grids in Europe, as Gianluigi Migliavacca, Project Manager at Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico explains
Advances in newborn screening for neuromuscular disease
Kristin Stephenson, Sr. VP, Chief Policy & Community Engagement Officer at the Muscular Dystrophy Association details the advances taking place in newborn screening for neuromuscular disease
Deploying technology to bridge the public spending gap
Adrian Fieldhouse, Managing Director for Government at Sopra Steria explores how the deployment of technology can help to bridge the public spending gap
Contagious Cities: Cultural programming in a policy context
Ken Arnold, Creative Director at Wellcome explains what contagious cities are and the extent to which they are considered to be cultural programming in a policy context
Dyspnoea (breathlessness): Still an ongoing battle
Katy Beckford and Alex Christie from the Association of Respiratory Nurse Specialists detail precisely why dyspnoea (breathlessness) remains an ongoing battle today
The Association of British Dispensing Opticians to launch new national resource centre
The Association of British Dispensing Opticians is launching a new training facility for aspiring opticians, the ABDO National Resource Centre, to gain qualifications and pursue a career in optics
Novel imaging biomarker to help predict coronary inflammation discovered
Researchers at Cleveland Clinic, University of Oxford, and University of Erlangen have identified a novel imaging biomarker – and found it can be used to predict all-cause and cardiac mortality by measuring inflammation of fatty tissue surrounding the coronary arteries
New technology is key to making NHS the world’s best
The NHS can become the most advanced health system in the world by embracing the best innovations in new technology and artificial intelligence, says Matt Hancock
Funding allocated for councils to help rough sleepers
Rough sleepers will receive further support after the government set out plans to fund 83 areas with the highest numbers of people at risk over the next 2 years
Making a mess of recycling? Households could soon be charged a return fee
Households who fail to recycle properly could soon be hit with a fee by their local council in a bid to reduce landfill waste
New ‘happiness’ service launched to combat school mental health crisis
A new wellbeing subscription service is launched this week which aims to tackle the biggest issue facing education today – school mental health
What does the pay gap look like in Britain?
The latest data by the Office for National Statistics has found that, while the gender gap in the UK has been steadily closing with the gap reported to have reached a record low in 2017, the average woman in the workplace still earns 9.1% less than the average man
Mobile health monitoring systems that address diabetes
Cecilia Van Cauwenberghe from Frost & Sullivan’s TechVision Group shares her thoughts on mobile health monitoring systems that address the global concern of diabetes