A recap of our four fantastic speakers at today’s Budget Hack: Georgie Hines, Science and Technology Editor at The Mancunion newspaper =] vb https://t.co/zzE6JTttYy — Policy@Manchester (@UoMPolicy) March 8, 2017 Rachael Gibbons, from the charity RECLAIM https://t.co/q6m121fwia — Policy@Manchester (@UoMPolicy) March 8, 2017 Cllr Angeliki Stogia, Manchester City Council https://t.co/AHYG3CZRdL — Policy@Manchester (@UoMPolicy) March 8, 2017 […]

I welcome the announcement in the Chancellor’s budget today of a boost in funding for UK skills. This comes up time and time again at the local and national level when talking about increasing productivity. People getting better skills and landing higher paid work will increase UK productivity over the longer term. Having a greater […]

A new guest author shares their thoughts as part of Policy@Manchester’s Budget Hack event: In his sitcom, Jerry Seinfeld famously pitched the idea for his programme to NBC as ‘a show about nothing’. ‘What happens in the show?’ asks the President of the network. ‘Nothing’ is the reply, to much consternation. There would be jokes, […]

The Budget Hack has been particularly active on social media, here’s a taster of the #BudgetHack action! “If you bake them, they will come”: Watch the #Budget2017 live, eat cake and blog. Join our #BudgetHack today! pic.twitter.com/1tN8rHA2kj — Alexis Darby (@alexis_darby) March 8, 2017 Great engagement from our academics, thanks to Francesca for putting the […]

Policy@Manchester Co-Director Professor Andy Westwood finishes off our Budget Hack talks with his reflections on the Budget as presented, and the detective work still to come now the numbers are published:   https://t.co/oTBIFFbmZC — Policy@Manchester (@UoMPolicy) March 8, 2017

Cllr Angeliki Stogia (Whalley Range) gives us her thoughts on today’s Budget and the realities of cumulative cuts to local government, reflecting on the gap between the reforms we need and the ones we’re likely to see.   https://t.co/AHYG3CZRdL — Policy@Manchester (@UoMPolicy) March 8, 2017

Rachael Gibbons works for the charity RECLAIM, and spoke on the continuing realities of social and economic inequalities and their consequences for young people in Britain today.   https://t.co/q6m121fwia — Policy@Manchester (@UoMPolicy) March 8, 2017

A new guest author shares their thoughts on today’s Budget Hack event: Today is Philip Hammond’s first budget and he has already been wished well by former Chancellor George Osborne whose rather wistful tweet this morning shows what a defining moment a Chancellors first budget can be. Thanks @George_Osborne – I’m looking forward to it. […]

Three new guest authors share their thoughts as part of Policy@Manchester’s Budget Hack event: While educational inequalities must always remain a concern, our experience at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology has not been one of over-representation of privately educated individuals. Our main concern is the skills gap that continues to persist between university education and […]

Georgie Hines is Science and Technology Editor at The Mancunion newspaper, and spoke to the Budget Hack on science, technology, inequalities and Higher Education reform.   =] vb https://t.co/zzE6JTttYy — Policy@Manchester (@UoMPolicy) March 8, 2017