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UK Government allocates £302m to repair FE college buildings

FE college groups across England will receive a share of £302 million to fix, maintain and improve their buildings.

Accessibility: What’s so hard about making things simple?

Sarah Winters, founder of Content Design London who previously led the Government Digital Service’s content strategy, discusses the art of making things simple so that they work for everyone.

UK winter plan: The Liverpool system of mass community testing

Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday (23 November) announced his UK winter plan to the House of Commons, proposing a mass community testing scheme, stricter Tiers, and weekly tests for prison staff.

Oxford and AstraZeneca vaccine is 70.4% effective

The UK's answer to Pfizer and Moderna, the Oxford and AstraZeneca vaccine, has proven to be exactly 70.4% effective against COVID-19.

Lesbian and bisexual women more likely to have substance addictions

Sexual minorities, especially women, are more likely to have substance addictions due to discrimination, stress and childhood trauma.

Rural relevance to economic levelling up

Nigel Wilcock, Executive Director of the Institute of Economic Development, lifts the lid on rural relevance to economic levelling up.

Oxford COVID vaccine creates strong immunisation in older people

New data from the Oxford COVID vaccine trial shows that the UK antidote is working well at Phase two, with defining percentages expected after Phase Three is complete.

Procurement focus: What we need to know about G-Cloud 12

Crown Commercial Service tells us what we need to know about G-Cloud 12 in this procurement focus.

Battery storage for industry – why now?

Chris Rason, Managing Director for Northern Europe at Aggreko UK, underlines the importance of battery storage for industry and why the time for this is now.

NIH: Black and Asian people twice as likely to catch COVID-19

US and UK researchers examined ethnicity data in both countries, finding that Black and Asian people were twice as likely as white people to be infected by the virus - but why?

Innovate UK give £47,000 to “food poverty map” project

A team at the University of Nottingham are working with OLIO to create a "food poverty map" via machine learning that could help local authorities target their food support.

The Pfizer vaccine: When will people in the UK get it?

Yesterday, at 6:45am in the US, the Pfizer vaccine was revealed to be over 90% effective - so when will the successful drug be available for the UK to use?

Should the Early Years address food poverty?

June O’Sullivan MBE, CEO of London Early Years Foundation (LEYF), stresses the need for the Government to make the free school meal voucher scheme available to all children, including those below the age of five.

Britain’s obesity plan: The top three ways we can transform our health

Stephen Jones, CEO and Co-Founder at Nourish Fit Food, discusses how Britain's obesity plan will continue to fail unless the concept of health itself is radically redefined.

UKRI invests £2 million into Canada-UK quantum technology collaboration

The UK and Canada have launched a quantum technology collaboration, following an agreement to share this knowledge in 2017.

Government extends furlough scheme until March

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced that the government's furlough scheme will be extended until the end of March.

Healthcare in the post-Brexit era 

With only 2 months to go, Nicholas Kelly, CEO, Axela Ltd, discusses what needs to be done now in order to prepare healthcare services for the post-Brexit era.

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