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"Clusters are key" CBI President tells South West Tech Daily

From Robert Hillier at the G7 Summit in Cornwall:

Cities in the South West should replicate Cambridge to take advantage of global opportunities, the President of the CBI, Lord Karan Bilimoria, has told SW Tech Daily at the G7 in Cornwall.

The Confederation of British Industry represents 190,000 businesses in the UK making up a third of the private sector workforce. Their...

Robert Hillier: Could the anti-China “Cornwall Consensus” be the real legacy from the G7?

China doesn’t need to be member of the G7 to make its presence felt at their meetings. In fact, China has never been a member. Its relatively low level of per-capita income means it is not seen as an advanced economy. You don’t need to be Alanis Morrisette to appreciate the irony.

I’ve had to take a Lateral Flow Covid test every day to gain entry to the media centre. The pack had to...

Robert Hillier: Give kids the tech tools to succeed

The national curriculum is letting my children down. They can write a sentence in hieroglyphics, but can’t set up a zoom call. They can tell me the Earth spins on an invisible axis but not what 5G is. I’m not decrying a polymathic education – I appreciate knowledge of history and geography is vital to an appreciation of the universe.

The national curriculum came in to being with the...