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West Midlands cities must tackle ‘digital divides’ to compete

  • 12th July 2018
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Andy Street, Centre for Cities, Featured, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, WMCA
Many UK cities are falling behind global counterparts in capitalising on the social and economic opportunities offered by digital technology. They need more powers and resources from Government to address digital

Birmingham’s urban renaissance continues – but planning reforms needed

  • 21st March 2018
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Birmingham, Centre for Cities, Councils, Featured, housing, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
A new report reveals the extent of urban transformation in Birmingham in recent decades – showing that the number of people living and working in the city centre has soared

Skills: a crisis of aspiration?

  • 5th March 2018
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Andy Street, Centre for Cities, Department for Education, Featured, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, skills, west midlands combined authority, WMCA
As I listened into the latest city skills debate last week, the most striking aspect was that which was not said, writes Kevin Johnson.  There was hardly a mention of

Urgent action needed to tackle Birmingham’s skills deficit

  • 28th February 2018
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Andy Street, Centre for Cities, Devolution, Featured, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, skills, west midlands combined authority, WMCA
Birmingham’s future economic success will be seriously constrained unless national and local leaders take wide-ranging action to address skills gaps in the city, reports Kevin Johnson. This is according to

Birmingham does cranes…and skills debates

  • 27th February 2018
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Andy Street, Birmingham chamber of commerce, Black Country LEP, Centre for Cities, Featured, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, skills, west midlands combined authority, WMCA
If you walk around Birmingham city centre, you can’t help but bump into one of two things. A building site (complete with obligatory crane) or a debate on skills, writes

Send for Allardyce! We’re topping the wrong league tables

  • 22nd February 2018
  • Chris Game
  • Andy Street, Centre for Cities, Featured, LEPs, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, west midlands combined authority, WMCA
As you’ll have noticed, it’s the awards season. We’ve had the BAFTAs and the Brits, there’s the Oscars on March 4th, and climactically, just four days later, it’s the Birmingham

An Optimism of Mayors

  • 6th December 2017
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Andy Burnham, Andy Street, Centre for Cities, Devolution, Featured, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
What is the collective noun for Mayors, you might be wondering? OK, you probably weren’t. Anyway, it’s not a Chain (that’s the civic bunch), but an Optimism. Yes, an Optimism

Shard Summit brings together UK/US metro mayors

  • 1st December 2017
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Andy Street, Centre for Cities, Devolution, Featured, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, west midlands combined authority
Seven months after taking office, England’s new metro mayors will come together next week with counterparts from US cities for the UK’s first ever international mayoral summit in London, reports

Broadcast Boost: would Ch4 generate new jobs?

  • 10th August 2017
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Andy Street, Centre for Cities, Cllr John Clancy, Featured, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, west midlands combined authority, WMCA
A leading think tank has questioned the value of the possible relocation of Channel 4 to the West Midlands based on its research into the impact of the BBC’s North

Will Industrial Strategy find its place in Birmingham?

  • 24th July 2017
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Andy Street, Centre for Cities, Devolution, Featured, Greg Clark, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
Greg Clark, the Business Secretary, visits Birmingham today along with his ministerial team as part of the build up to publication of an Industrial Strategy White Paper expected in the
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