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There is no replacement for face to face education provision and those without the right technology or connectivity can be excluded from online provision. Addressing digital exclusion has been a key issue for the Government and benevolent organisations identifying the lack of access to technology or internet provision. However there are other problems including: •Continue reading “Maximising the digital opportunities presented by the pandemic for education providers and learners.”

THE SOLUTION Volunteering, with weekly ‘rewards’ could be the answer. Teenagers who have left school but are without work, could act as ‘buddies’ to younger children in schools, helping with homework, even accompanying them home to relieve the school run, as long as police checks were in place for the safety of their charges. OthersContinue reading “Volunteering gets rewards”

According to the ONS, around 30,000 people were contracting old Covid (or symptomatic to old Covid) each day since March 2020 when the R rate was 1.0. At times the R rate fell but now it has risen due to the new Covid variant. The average infection rate is therefore between 25,000 and 35,000 perContinue reading “Covid vaccine recipient safe selection process”

Everyone needs to pull together in the pandemic and make sacrifices, and that includes teachers. If they have a contractual benefit of so many weeks of holiday, give it to them now or in the next couple of months. Forget the pressure to provide full education now, except for the vulnerable and children of keyContinue reading “We cancel the summer holidays and rearrange the school calendar.”

Britain’s high streets have been in decline since before Covid-19 as a result of a number of factors, not least the rise of online shopping, focus on out of town shopping, stifling business rates etc. This trend of decline has been significantly accelerated by Covid-19 and this competition entry puts forth a series of proposalsContinue reading “Reinventing our high streets post Covid-19”

The government should have a common online innovation challenge fund platform. This platform should be used by all departments and teams in government to run and advertise open innovation/challenge competitions, receive submissions, organise and retain data on submissions, and it should be straightforward and easily findable by members of the public. For the purposes ofContinue reading “Common innovation challenge funding and application platform”

Reducing CO2 emissions with sustainable, home grown biofuel Drax Power Station in Yorkshire, currently generates 6% of the all U.K. electricity from biomass in the form of wood pellets. More than 5 million tonnes, is imported annually, from the USA and Canada. Shipping this quantity of wood pellets across the Atlantic, in a continuous streamContinue reading “Reducing CO2 emissions with sustainable, home grown biofuel”

Making house prices and rents once again affordable needs local residents to support more housing. Is there a solution so existing communities welcome new families and reverse existing residents fear of change in their neighbourhood? History has some useful lessons from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Landed estates, whether in urban or rural areas tookContinue reading “Making house prices affordable; the key is reversing residents fear of change.”

One of the features that makes the UK such an amazing place to live is the number and variety of small and midsize towns and villages. Many of these are steeped in history, beautiful to behold and are pretty much perfect just as they are. Now however the requirement for additional homes and the indifferenceContinue reading “Why Is Nobody Doing Anything To Stop Our Towns and Villages Being Destroyed?”

In answering the first question above, I suggested that the recent COVID-19 pandemic offers us an opportunity to harness the time and space that has been afforded us to pause and reflect on the global decline in Emotional Intelligence (EQ), before moving to action in first halting and then reversing this decline. I shall nowContinue reading “Capitalizing on opportunities to cultivate greater Emotional Intelligence globally”