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    The Apprenticeship Levy, as most technology leaders understood it, no longer exists. Since the 1st of April this year, it’s the Growth and Skills Levy, following the Autumn Budget 2025 and the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. Oversight has also moved, from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education to a new body called…

  • The business case for fixing tech’s gender gap

    441,000. That’s how many women worked as IT specialists in the UK in 2024, according to BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT’s 2025 analysis of ONS labour market data. It’s a big number until you look at the share. 22% of all UK IT specialists. Up by exactly one percentage point on the year before,…

  • The tech value gap: why your existing stack is worth more than you think

    Every board I sit on asks the same question when budget season comes round. What do we need to buy next. Almost none of them ask the harder question. What have we already bought that we’re not getting value from. That second question is the one worth asking first, and new research from Deloitte UK…

  • The Clocks That Don’t Wait For Certainty

    Nobody can agree on when a quantum computer will break today’s encryption. Everyone agrees the migration away from it takes about a decade. And meanwhile, your engineers’ source code is already leaving the building through the front door. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has published a timeline for moving the country off today’s encryption…

  • AI Is a Time Machine, Not a Money Machine

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  • The AI Agent That Was Told Not to Touch the Database, and Deleted It Anyway

    What a string of real agent failures reveals about the gap between how fast AI authority is concentrating and how slowly its guardrails are catching up In July 2025, a coding startup called Replit was in the middle of a nine-day “vibe coding” experiment, letting an AI agent write and manage a piece of software…

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