Engineers are the world’s problem solvers. You can see their legacy everywhere – from iconic structures like the pyramids or aqueducts to technological wonders we encounter every day, like the light bulb or telephone.

Former Cabinet Minister Rt Hon Justine Greening celebrates Yeovil’s official status “The Home of British Helicopters”: Leonardo has a long established engineering and manufacturing hub in the town, with an extensive helicopter supply chain that supports 12,000 jobs around the UK.

Chair of the Purpose Coalition, Rt Hon Justine Greening, and a number of Purpose Universities Coalition Vice-Chancellors have this week written to the Prime Minister regarding his recent announcement about a crackdown on low-value degrees.

As students wait for their A-Level results on Thursday, new analysis shows how their plans for the future have been affected by the pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis.

As we head towards A-Level results day, students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be feeling the pressure as they wait to find out how they did in this summer’s exams and if that was good enough to get them into their university of choice.

We hear a lot about the skills gap. It’s a twenty-first century challenge and it’s ironic that it’s the tech sector where the situation is particularly acute.

Amid a continuing cost-of-living crisis and an uncertain fiscal outlook, a new report has shed light on how the pandemic impacted children’s development.

As climate records tumble and political parties review their policies to reflect perceived voter sentiment, the evidence continues to stack up to show that the burden of climate change, and in particular that of air pollution, is borne by the most disadvantaged communities.

The scale and impact of the growth in the number of people living with major illness as the population ages has been laid bare in ground-breaking new analysis. It makes for shocking reading, with over nine million people projected to be living with major illness by 2040, an increase of 2.5 million since 2019.

The University of Greenwich has written to the Government to raise concerns about how the quality of teacher training is assessed in what it called a ‘seriously flawed’ approach.

Purpose Business Coalition partners were amongst those included on this year’s prestigious HR Most Influential list which recognises the people whose ideas and actions have most shaped HR practices in the UK and globally in 2023

While we see daily reports of the challenges that many people are continuing to face as they struggle with the cost of living, a slew of headlines is fast approaching on the huge profits that many of the UK’s biggest businesses are set about to announce.

The Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net-Zero made the visit to Doncaster – where low-carbon solutions company SMS employ 100 people – as part of an awareness event organised by The Purpose Coalition

Much has changed for me since that day at London Pride seven years ago when I came out as gay - the first ever openly gay female Cabinet Minister. It wasn’t an easy thing to do at the time, but it was the right thing to do, and I’ve never regretted it. I hoped that I could make a difference by being truly myself so that other LGBT+ people could see someone like them at the highest levels of government.

New research from Co-op in partnership with VotesforSchools reveals over half (59%) of young people aged 7-16 years old believe apprentices should be paid the national living wage as cost of living drives interest in apprenticeships

Whilst many expected this week’s trio of by-elections to result in wipeout for Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party, the results gave the leaders of each of England’s three main party leaders cause for hope ahead of the next general election.

Where exactly is the Conservative Party going? After this week’s by-election results, the flippant answer could be “into Opposition after the next General Election”. But in reality it feels like a much more fundamental question for the governing party.

What gets measured gets done. So if we want opportunities to be open irrespective of background, then tracking socio-economic diversity of employees matters for all employers.

Amidst the beauty of places like Devon and Cornwall, a pressing issue affects the people who form the backbone of these local economies.

Today Reed in Partnership has launched Reed Environment to address the UK’s net-zero skills shortage. It will create a newly trained green workforce to help the UK meet its net-zero targets and spread economic opportunity across the country.