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CBI warns most workers will need new skills by 2030 to support economy

As new technologies and the changing nature of the UK’s economy transform the skills needed for many jobs, the country faces a stark choice between investing in skills or suffering sustained rates of high unemployment.

Jobs Support Scheme expansion: How will it affect my business?

The Government has announced measures to bolster the Jobs Support Scheme.

Government to pay two thirds of employees’ wages if businesses forced to shut

Businesses will be able to claim the grant when they are subject to restrictions and employees are off work for at least seven consecutive days.

Briton Sir Roger Penrose shares Nobel Prize in physics for black hole discovery

He splits the prize with Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.

‘Super-enzyme’ that eats plastic ‘significant leap forward’ in pollution crisis

The enhanced protein is made up of two enzymes produced by a type of bacteria that feeds on plastic bottles.

Airbus unveils concepts for world’s first zero-emission commercial aircraft

The European plane-maker claimed the innovative hydrogen-fuelled aircraft could enter service by 2035.

Nuclear plant robots and batteries for electric planes get Government funding

A £65 million investment in future technologies such as battery development and robotics has been unveiled.

UK firms awarded £1m to help track space junk

An estimated 900,000 pieces of debris larger than 1cm are currently orbiting the Earth.

Around 695,000 UK jobs lost in first five months of pandemic

Coronavirus continues to impact jobs. The Office for National Statistics reports that another 36,000 jobs fell off UK payrolls in August.

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