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U-turn if you want to?
So today is the great Education Vote in the House of Commons. We get to hear of student tuition fees will increase. To help the Liberal Democrats in their pondering… Manifesto Pledge – Page 5 – “Don’t...
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Business and Education
I blogged yesterday about the Education vote in the House of Commons. A few weeks ago I took part in another ’round table’ discussion – this time hosted at the new University of Derby Corporate Centre...
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Students and the economy
Last week when I assessed for the RICS, one of the candidates spoke about the investment market for student accommodation – where there had clearly been a boom in recent years. I was interested in his...
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Regeneration in 2011 and beyond?
I spent a really interesting day last week at the University of Nottingham School of Architecture and Built Environment. Masterplanning a new town at Ningbo China We are offering them a site we manage...
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The housing problem….
When they came to power Labour had a battle cry, “Education Education, Education”. It became Blairs war cry. They saw it as a way of improving the nation – a way of creating wealth, especially as...
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SET conference – the lectures – day 2
It was day 2 yesterday of this International conference in Istanbul. The gala dinner on Monday night was a fairly spectacular affair – dining outside by the poolside. The food was good – but there was...
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Nottingham University – a critical component of the City!
I mentioned in some tweets and in my blog at the weekend that I had spent a lot of my day on Friday at the University of Nottingham. It was their Impact campaign launch last week – five days of...
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Nottingham 2011 census statistics
The census data is being released gradually – it is possible to spot some interesting trends for Nottingham The comparisons are 2001-2011. We have lost 22% of the white Irish population and 8% of white...
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The City Message?
At MIPIM this year what struck me more than anything was how mixed the Nottingham message is. I suspect we are trying to be all things to all men and in a very crowded market-place this is not enough...
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The decline of education?
There is something amusing (read ‘worrying’) about the man who runs our schools. Michael Gove is that man. He’s the bloke in the picture. He seems to have a bit of an issue with statistics though. He...
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Business and Education
Yesterday I chaired a meeting at the St James’ Hotel in Nottingham. It was arranged by the Nottingham Post and was intended to stimulate a debate around employability and whether schools, colleges and...
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