Data

We are all, I suspect, a bit ambivalent about data. On the one hand, we all make use of it most of the time: we are booking a restaurant or a holiday, buying a new domestic appliance, using a local builder or repairer, and we look up their ratings. We try to sift what others…

Degree apprenticeships

The University recently welcomed its two thousand five hundredth degree apprentice. This makes the University one of the largest providers of degree apprenticeships in the country: the apprentices now study across twelve of the university’s academic departments, across thirty-five apprenticeship standards and are employed by almost six hundred employers.  Apprentices are full-time employees in work,…