Making disability count There have been some positive developments on the jobs front with unemployment falling and more people now in work. That's the good news. For one group trying to get on the ladder there are continuing frustrations, obstacles and, it has to be said, prejudice. Anyone with a disability still faces a tough task even getting an interview, let alone a job. Disabled people are more than twice as likely to be unemployed as those without a disability, according to a Labour … [Read more...] about Interview: Joy Lewis, Adopt an Intern
Interviews
Interview: Mark Bevan, CEO of SCDI
A critical friend Mark Bevan has spent most of his career trying to improve the lives of others. He's the archetypal "people person" and a problem solver. As such he might have found himself the perfect challenge as the new head of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry. It terms itself an "economic development network" and has become a fixture in helping to shape public policy since the inter-war years. Bevan believes its role as a "think tank", procuring and delivering … [Read more...] about Interview: Mark Bevan, CEO of SCDI
Interview: Alistair Campbell, property developer
New life for old towns: It was the day Her Majesty The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh came to town. Well, not quite. As the local paper put it, the Royal visitors were "in the Falkirk area", actually undertaking public duties at the Kelpies and opening a new section of the Forth & Clyde canal. She did not call in on Falkirk town centre. No surprise, really, as that seems to be how the locals also feel about the place. Fewer people are choosing a visit to its dwindling range of shops … [Read more...] about Interview: Alistair Campbell, property developer
Interview: Simon Andrews, Fraunhofer Institute
A quantum of solutions: There was a time when academia and business were regarded as odd bedfellows, mutually suspicious of each other's motives and not always able to see eye to eye. Companies did their own research and university scientists were paid to develop ideas that often never got beyond the test tube. These days, with technology at the heart of almost every sector, there is greater collaboration, none more so than in the work being undertaken by Britain's first and, so far, only … [Read more...] about Interview: Simon Andrews, Fraunhofer Institute
Interview: FX Group founders
Building the future: In a former industrial yard, reached via a gated alleyway in Leith, the future is being forged by a small group of millennials with big ideas on how the economy should be shaped. FX Group is putting itself at the forefront of leadership programmes and is drawing on an already impressive track record of working with some of the world's biggest companies such as Virgin and EY. Co-founded by WeAreTheFuture founder Bruce Walker and the Power of Youth founder Adam Purvis … [Read more...] about Interview: FX Group founders