By Giacomo Gobbin Sir Mervyn King, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England, has a seriously optimistic perspective for Greater Manchester’s economy in the forthcoming years due to its vibrant creative industries. The economist visited The Point at Lancashire County Cricket Club this week, and commended the region for consistently adapting to the changes [...]

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We recently attended the launch of Talent North West, an organisation for HR and recruitment for people in the North West, and were particularly interested in one of the speakers who looked at the psychology behind creativity. Professor Mark Batey, from the University of Manchester and Manchester Business School, is a world leading researcher into [...]

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It’s been a busy couple of months in the education sector, and we’ve enjoyed a very illuminating events season. It’s always good to mingle with our clients and associates at events such as Learning Technologies and BETT – for many technology partners, training providers and education publishers that week in February is the highlight of [...]

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If Shakespeare had written a play about David Beckham it would have been filled with thoughtful speeches about his glory days as captain of England’s football team, his valiant attempts to bring the 2018 World Cup to Britain’s shores and his heroic and extremely photogenic contribution to the magnificent spectacle that was the London Olympics. [...]

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Have you ever wondered why a mouse can survive a fall from a tall building but a human cannot? Or how a Mexican wave starts or which queue to join in the supermarket? And had you guessed that these are in fact specimen maths questions, not jokes from a Christmas cracker? Professor Timothy Gowers of [...]

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Today we look at how education has become a competitive business: the institutions that will thrive are those that take a commercial approach to communications. A generation ago, a PR professional who specialised in the education sector wouldn’t have seen much action in the UK. Today, organisations from colleges and universities to awarding bodies and [...]

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