Apprenticeships should become more relevant & beneficial
The Financial Skills Partnership has praised a parliamentary committee for bringing to the fore the debate on the improvement of apprenticeships.
Opinion
The Apprentice Week Nine: Best of British
This weeks task could be considered extremely topical, to effectively rebrand and re-launch an entire industry via a multimedia campaign. The industry being English sparkling wine.
The colour of money: What the Cardiff City rebranding proposals teach us about marketing
What can businesses learn from the proposed rebrand of Cardiff City FC?
Laughing All The Way To The Banksy
When you know very little about art or more specifically, urban art, the prospect of choosing the works of two artists to display and sell in a gallery must be very daunting. It’s a good job then that there were two art experts still on the Apprentice and that’s exactly what this task entailed.
‘Crooks in Suits’ force business to get credit hit from high interest lenders
I blame bankers for driving business to high interest loan companies to source finance.
Don’t look back in anger at rear-view recession – focus on the future
We cannot allow the rear view mirror economics that has put the UK into a double dip recession should not sculpt how businesses run their operations.
Bring Back National Service
Simon Swan Co-founder of Hiring-Hub.com, a multi-award winning web-based SaaS platform that is turning the world of recruitment tackles the problem of youth unemployment
Will HMRC reforms really make a difference?
HM Revenue and Customs has been seen as the scourge of entrepreneurs for some time – but will the Government’s budget pledge of reforms lead to the real shake-up business groups have been demanding?
Banks: Open up our financial data & let us grow our businesses
Duane Jackson, CEO and founder of KashFlow has written to the heads of Britain’s banks, urging them to grant small businesses secure access to their own financial data. Duane warns that a failure to do so is placing many UK small businesses, and therefore the British economy, at enormous risk.
Nationwide search for young manufacturing stars launched
Business Minister Mark Prisk has launched a nationwide search for the Make it in Great Britain 30 Under 30 – 30 young rising stars employed in the manufacturing industry, all aged under the age of 30.
