4 min read12 August We should be avoiding intensive forms of farming livestock and poultry that are polluting many of our waterways, reducing soil health, and decimating biodiversity. At the heart of farming lies an inherent contradiction. For decades, farmers have been encouraged and lauded for making their farms more...
4 min read50 min Ministers need to outline plans for national exams from next year onwards. Confidence needs to be restored in a system that many believe is irreparably broken. This year’s A-level results have in many ways confirmed our worst fears: the pandemic has exacerbated educational inequalities outside and...
4 min read11 August When the future of our planet relies on transformational change, a botched Green Homes Grant, a constantly delayed Treasury Net Zero Review, and a Transport Decarbonisation Plan which retains the £27 billion road building scheme, simply don’t cut it. We shouldn’t need another report to know...
5 min read60 min You can’t fix broken food, energy, or economic systems – let alone environmental systems – with the practices that broke them. A global “code red”, the “clock is ticking”, a “wake-up call”. The metaphors were flowing in response to the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC)...
The HVM Catapult’s AMRC and Nuclear AMRC are leading a project to green the UK’s most carbon-intensive region, the Humber | Credit: High Value Manufacturing Catapult Over the past ten years we have seen what UK manufacturing can achieve. With 2030 on the horizon, we must build on this momentum....
4 min read4 min As schools will no longer have to enforce “bubbles” from September, it will make the identification of close contacts amongst pupils almost impossible. After two academic years that have sent shockwaves across the education system, can we hope for a smooth return to schools for 2021-22,...
4 min read1 hr Despite protestations that reducing child poverty is a priority and despite all the talk of levelling up, there is no child poverty strategy worthy of the name. Marcus Rashford has once again shown up the government’s failure on the child poverty front. First, he twice achieved...
Dawn Howard, NOAH Chief Executive | NOAH Dawn Howard, NOAH Chief Executive, calls on the government to back the animal health and medicines industry as a core part of the UK’s fast-developing life sciences sector. The animal health and medicines industry is high-value, high-growth, high-skilled and invaluable to the UK’s...
