Closing speech UA Summit 2016: Leading the way in our cities and regions
…d shortages and persistent low productivity as a country. According to the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, by 2024 almost half of all UK employment will be in highly-skilled occupations. It has become a truism that many of today’s graduates will work in – or even invent – new industries which don’t yet exist. Already, we see how the pace of technological change and automation is disrupting industries left, right and centre. Old notions of…