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short film
This short film shows how pupils from Heaton Manor, Cardinal Hume and Kenton School visited Discovery Museum in Newcastle as part of ippr north's Learning by Doing project and came up with ideas to create a Museum of the Future.
Public Service Paradox
The public sector in the North East is performing well. However, it is not having any great impact on the region’s relative poverty as compared with other parts of the country.
North needs 'new economic opportunities'
ippr north’s new report uses detailed analysis of unemployment data to show that, as a general rule, those areas within northern city-regions that were left behind in the boom years have suffered most in the recession.
'Your Call' youth event
This Youth Café Politique Involved schools from around the region and invited students to give their take on employment, the economy and aspirations. Watch a short film shot on the day.
Encouragement for apprentices is sure to pay skills dividends
As the Government strives to improve the harmony between the supply and demand in the market for skills, successful work-based schemes like apprenticeships offer a great way of integrating employers into the process of shaping skills priorities.
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The Human city-state
Speech by Ed Cox, Director
The northern regions of England have the opportunity to drive this a new political economy: the human city-state.
Regional Experiences of Ageing
Conference summary
This conference explored regional experiences of ageing and how the wellbeing of older people should be taken forward in the next decade.
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Public Service Paradox
The final report of the Commission on Public Sector Reform in the North East
Interlinked themes under which the public sector and the region must overcome challenges, each with a key recommendation.
The Impact of the Recession on Northern City-Regions
By Senior Economist Tony Dolphin
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This paper looks at the geographical effect of the recession across the United Kingdom and, in particular, at how it has affected deprived communities in the city-regions in the North of England and the people who live in them.
Building Communities of Trust
Community Cohesion in the North
The conference sought to explore the role of local authorities and third sector organisations in building trust and cohesion in all communities across the North.