Plenty to chat about again this week, from The Big Short and our post on sweating assets to The World Design Congress next September; and from Onshore Power Supply maps to the new Growth and Skills Levy. Phew!

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Heat pumps, COP29 and The Green Edge’s plans for global domination—you heard it here first.

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We’re talking and posting about green design skills this week, while other people are talking about changes to the appreticeship levy. So, we’re talking about them too.

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Digging the school garden here this week, plus a question from the floor to our fearless leader at COP29 and what interests the national counting house.

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Talking about last week’s post and this week’s post today. Plus a chat with engineer and author Yasmin Ali about Hereford’s New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE).

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Want to know more about Wednesday’s Budget? Take a day or two off and read about it here; or perhaps have a listen to this podcast together with Martin Lewis’ excellent summary for the nitty-gritty.

Oh, and you can find our usual weekly post (not on the Budget) here.

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Dear Skills England, please read our post and listen to our podcast this week. Plus, we hear from EngineeringUK on its new STEM Education report, as well as City of Ithaca’s digital twin. Dioscuri for the modern age.

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This week’s special podcast on The Education Landscape is on our agenda this week; plus news of National Electrotechnical Training’s NET Celebration of Skills in London on 23rd October.

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This week’s post takes the form of a special edition of The Green Edge podcast, in which we talk to Ruth Joseph of Strategic Development Network (SDN), Scott Young of RenewableUK and Alan Benvie of Oldham College about The Education Landscape programme.

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Fun with AI this week and a chat with the person who’s got us thinking hard about this stuff: Martyn Poessinouw of Peterborough City Council.

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