A North East college has created a unique and highly bespoke approach to help employers recruit young talent from across the region.
Working with Home Group, one of the UK’s largest housing associations, Gateshead College designed a bespoke data analyst apprenticeship to help the organisation appoint a new apprentice data...
From escalating rents to the need for rapid scalability, small businesses are facing a myriad of challenges when it comes to building a customer base and making a liveable profit.
Modular buildings have emerged as a potential game changer for these concerns.
These structures, premade in a factory and assembled...
TruStack, based in Cramlington, specialises in Agile Working Solutions and Cybersecurity and has enabled hundreds of organisations to work from home during the recent lockdowns.
Figures from the Office of National Statistics show a quarter of all employees are currently working from home (https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronavirustheukeconomyandsocietyfasterindicators/latest#social-impacts-of-the-coronavirus-on-great-britain), but this number could increase if...
A team of researchers led by experts from Newcastle University has highlighted how slick, well-designed websites and apps can be used to sell high-cost loans to poor and vulnerable people.
The websites include sliders that customers can play around with, brightly coloured ‘apply now’ buttons, forms that are simple to...
An electric vehicle parts manufacturer based in Gateshead has announced expansion plans that will create 200 new jobs.
Engineering firm Sevcon will be tripling its workforce and moving to new premises in the Team Valley as it profits from rising demand for low-carbon vehicles worldwide. The new, larger premises will...
North East manufacturing specialist Express Engineering has sold its aerospace division to focus on developing its subsea energy products business.
Gateshead-based Express Engineering, a global leader in innovative manufacturing, assembly and testing solutions for the subsea oil and gas industry, has sold its aerospace division for an undisclosed sum.
The aerospace division...
A lecturer from Newcastle University will join a £10 million project to investigate the devastating effects of climate change on the Arctic.
Dr Geoffrey Abbott will be part of a team using underwater vehicles to collect data in the depths of the Arctic Ocean.
Far from being remote from British life,...
Newcastle city centre's Science Central is a twenty-four-acre science and technology facility located on the old site of the Scottish & Newcastle brewery. The science hub is a £350 million pound investment in Newcastle University.
A recent plan to spend £29 million pounds on a new teaching & learning centre has...
A north-east tech company that helps customers organise events by finding them DJs, musicians, caterers and marques has just received a £120,000 boost.
Poptop, an online database, uses an algorithm to put party planners in touch with a wide variety of entertainers, services and products.
Poptop was set up by two...
A
study has found that large quantities of global-warming gases could be escaping
from melting ice on Greenland.
An
international team of researchers camped in Greenland for three months over the
summer, analysing meltwater running off the island’s ice sheet.
They
found that six tons of the greenhouse gas methane passed through their small measuring
site alone....
