DSIT Download - 15 March 2024
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
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Spring Budget puts UK on fast-track to becoming science and technology superpower
The Spring Budget unveiled an ambitious package of announcements designed to boost the UK’s science and technology sectors, unleashing innovation to drive growth, create jobs, and improve lives. Alongside tax cuts for workers, harnessing technology to benefit the public sector was at the heart of the Chancellor’s Spring Budget that will deliver the long-term change our country needs to deliver a brighter future for Britain, and improve economic security and opportunity for everyone.
Thousands more to train in future tech like AI as government unveils over £1.1 billion package to skill-up UK
Thousands more people across the UK will train and gain qualifications in future tech like artificial intelligence, and others that could transform areas like medicine, 6G and quantum computing, thanks to a package of more than £1.1 billion to skill-up the country. Addressing the Maths Summit at the Science Museum in London on Tuesday 12 March, the Science and Technology Secretary set out plans to revolutionise the UK’s skill base in key industries, aiming to ensure the UK is home to the world’s most highly-skilled, well-trained workforce in future technologies.
British investors targeted in first government advertising push for scale-up boost
A new campaign aimed at driving up investment opportunities in scale-ups was launched by the Technology Secretary, with podcast adverts, billboards and more showing off science and technology scale-ups to British investment hubs. The ‘Science and Tech is our Superpower’ campaign aims to make sure science and technology firms in the UK that are ready for growth can access the funding they need from the UK to boost long term economic growth and create jobs.
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International Horizon Europe campaign launches to supercharge links between UK researchers and colleagues in Italy and Spain
The brightest thinkers with the biggest ideas from across Spain and Italy are being encouraged to partner with UK scientists, researchers and businesses through the world-leading Horizon Europe programme, as part of a new international campaign. Horizon Europe is the world’s largest programme of research collaboration, worth about £80 billion in total. Following the bespoke deal secured last year, UK’s brightest minds can work with partners from over 40 countries – including Italy and Spain – on some of the biggest challenges facing us all, from climate change to healthcare.
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Gen Z offered doubled salary prospects through no-skills-required tech bootcamps
Skills offered by free government-backed bootcamps can lead to average salaries exceeding £70,000, two and half times the UK average, new research has revealed. The findings from Beauhurst also reveal that roles in technology overall pay an average of 55% more the national average. This comes as the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) launches a drive to get more people to sign up to digital Skills Bootcamps in cloud computing, cybersecurity, software development and more.
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4dUK National Health Service Transformation Results. I am asking once again if any of the 8,900 people on LinkedIn with the title of NHS Transformation Director have any results of transforming the NHS patient journey. I have asked this question many times over the last twelve months and also emailed a lot of NHS departments but so far received nothing. The UK waiting list for treatment now extends to over 7.5 million cases. When I analyse the patient journey the value adding touch time is between 8 and 14% of the elapsed calendar time consumed, so time is a relevant measure of success in the NHS. My time based analysis framework can help transform the UK NHS. Please track a patient journey and record the value adding time, and by default the NVA time if you do not believe me. See - Patient Safety Learning Hub -https://lnkd.in/eZUjzFid Please advise if you have any results.
Business Development, Sales Acceleration
7moThis is very encouraging in such an important area. The Institute for Sales Professionals is pulling together a Trailblazer to design the next iteration of Level 4 Apprenticeships, the ability to effectively sell technology is a key step in the commercialisation of the UK's incredible ability to generate world-class IP. If anyone at DSIT or elsewhere is interested in shaping the sales apprenticeship and producing world class technical sales skills, please reach out to me through Linked-In and I can give you some more insight and maybe you or someone you recommend can help? This is a specialist area of sales and it would be good to have some perspective from this community, Thanks so much for reading this comment, I look forward to hearing from people who want our tech sector to be the best it can be. www.the-isp.org The ISP is a not for profit organisation #salesexcellence #apprenticeships