Results for March, 2004
Mike McCann – advancing enterprise
March 01, 2004 Entrepreneurship is rightly recognised as a vital factor in the future of UK competitiveness. To build an enterprise culture, it will require schools and businesses to get involved - preferably together. Read more >
John May: stepping onto the career ladder
March 01, 2004 Widening access to further education represents a key challenge if Britain is going to have a competitive, diverse workforce in the future. Briefing talks to the head of the UK Career Academy Foundation, a non-profit working to make the door to university as wide open as possible. Read more >
Learning the lessons of the future
March 01, 2004 An educated, well equipped workforce is clearly in the interests for business. But it requires companies to bring their energy to the table if today’s young people are to contribute to an equal, prosperous future, argues WH Smith’s chairman. Read more >
Skills: responsible outsourcing – an oxymoron?
March 01, 2004 As companies directly employ fewer and fewer people in low skills, low wage jobs, can responsible business respond to the economic logic of cost saving while keeping its principles intact? Read more >
Q&A: Joe Franses, Group Community Investment Manager, Cable & Wireless
March 01, 2004 Joe Franses from Cable & Wireless sets out why their new partnership with the Employers Forum on Disability makes good business sense. Read more >
New technology: information evolution not revolution
March 01, 2004 After the early hype, the discovery of a digital divide burst the bubble of euphoria about how ICT would change the world. Slowly, the benefits are starting to show through. Read more >
The benefits of new technology?
March 01, 2004 Within countries and between countries, a "digital divide" has become apparent between those who have access to ICT tools and those that do not. However, there are now increasing signs that the early efforts to close the divide are starting to bear fruit. Read more >
Q&A: Joe Franses, Group Community Investment Manager, Cable & Wireless
March 01, 2004 Joe Franses from Cable & Wireless sets out why their new partnership with the Employers Forum on Disability makes good business sense. Read more >
International: responsible competitiveness
March 01, 2004 The spread of corporate social responsibility around the world is raising the prospect that individual countries can gain a competitive advantage. Governments are starting to take notice. Read more >