The UK has a successful automotive industry. But more can, and should, be done to build on the industry's recent successes and establish a long-term framework for growth.
Recently I've had the honour of recognising the achievements of a group of young people who are tipped to be the next big thing in their field.
Aquascutum is to shut its factory in Corby - where the company has had a presence for more than 100 years - making 115 staff redundant. The clothin...
Japanese car giant Nissan is to build a new hatchback model at its UK plant, creating more than 1,000 jobs at the site and at component companies, it ...
Ferdinand Porsche, the designer of the iconic 911 sportscar, has died in Salzburg at the age of 76. Porsche, nicknamed Butzi, was the son of former...
Education is not about learning by rote, or sitting in rows, but about interaction and generating excitement in young people.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently cut its forecast for China's 2012 economic growth to 8.25% from the 9% projected in September, and it warned that exports would be a significant drag on expansion in the coming two years.
Universities must also do more in helping to shape the entrepreneurs and business leaders of tomorrow. The students I meet at UCL are more commercially-savvy than ever, with many chomping at the bit to start their own businesses.
Pay rises in private firms so far this year have averaged 2.8%, the highest level since the end of 2008, according to a report. A study of more tha...
Average pay rises in industry have fallen back slightly in recent months to 2.4% and wage freezes have started to creep up, according to new research....
The road to recovery for the economy looks a bit like zig-zag hill in Dorset with lots of twists, turns, unexpected diversions, two-speed recoveries, and slow-moving European juggernauts holding everyone up.
The decline in British industry means that the government's hope that it can start a private sector revival by reducing public sector spending, cuttin...
Two unusual terms were trending on Twitter on Thursday - "#ukgrowth" and "Jaguar Land Rover" - and the surprising thing is that their appearance was r...
We want to see a future in which everyone can have safe and reliable access to cyberspace, without fear that they will be targeted by criminals, in which are able to use new technologies to spur economic growth in developing countries, to narrow the digital divide, to give our citizens greater choice, to find new ways of addressing conflicts and to root out and prevent grotesque human rights abuses.
Interest rates must rise by five percent now, not stay low nor creep up a little at a time, or they, and inflation, will be at 15 or 20% soon. Altho...
At the end of Dickens' Great Expectations poor, abused Estella, tells Pip, whose great expectations were themselves destroyed, that she has been 'bent and broken '. Since the collapse of Lehman's our economy has felt the clammy chill of that sentiment. But Estelle goes on to say: "... but - I hope - into better shape."
Never mind the X Factor, the UK is gripped by the 'Gok Factor'.
At a time when the UK is crying out for jobs, the coalition government's lack of conviction over the future of defence manufacturing and its technology base is a desperate indictment of short-term thinking.
The UK has no defence industrial strategy "at all" a defence expert has claimed amid BAE Systems's announcement that 2,942 jobs will be cut from its m...
Twenty-first century industrial problems cannot be solved primarily with a nineteenth-century educational toolkit.
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Less than half of engineering graduates are working in the industry after graduating, research suggests. A new study claims th...
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Car-making could return to one of the British motor industry's most-famous plant sites in a move that will create hundreds of new...
The modern wealth of a nation flows from its intellectual capital. Obama strongly signalled his understanding of this truth in this year's State of the Nation Address, when he called his continued investment in science 'a Sputnik moment'.
