What’s hot across the public sector
Welcome back. Calling all public sector heroes! Buckle up for a sizzling summary of what's hot this month. Dive into this month's roundup of what's hot, including exciting updates on the new QA, plus some insightful tips for our friends in Higher Ed on attracting foreign students and mastering financial planning.
Ready for a breather? Grab your favourite cuppa and dive in with us! ☕️
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These frameworks allow our clients to procure quickly and directly, safe in the knowledge they are not only receiving the greatest ROI but that all due diligence has been completed to ensure the best quality of service.
Not only are QA approved by major frameworks, but we go one better – providing added support such as helping our clients to build business cases and other steps necessary to secure your training and start seeing results.
Seizing AI opportunity
Across the public sector, organisations are being urged to prioritise the power of AI technologies, harnessing advantages such as:
- Freeing up time and resources
- Automation of back-office tasks
- Mitigation of bias
- Promoting equity
- Data driven decision making
- Accurate, predictive budgeting
- Citizen engagement
One area where we are seeing an active push is in Blue Light, to support functions like identification of wanted and missing persons, investigation of digital evidence, and putting more officers back out on the beat in communities.
Crime and Policing Minister, Chris Philp, said:
“AI technology is a powerful tool for good, with huge opportunities to advance policing and cut crime. We are committed to making sure police have the systems they need to solve and prevent crimes, bring offenders to justice, and protect the public…
This is not about acquiring new kit and deploying new tech for the sake of it. It is about staying one step ahead of criminals, delivering smarter, more effective policing and, ultimately, making our streets safer…”
To ensure AI opportunities are maximised quickly, safely and at scale, AI implementation skills are critical.
Learn more about our approach to supporting organisations on their AI journey below.
Local Government
Invest in your existing talent
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves announced that departments will be expected to cut 2% from their administration budgets, following the revelation of a projected 22bn overspend. Labour have committed to halve consultancy spending from 2025 to 2026.
What does this mean for your departments?
To meet the deficit induced by cutting out current consultancy spend, we believe the strongest approach is to upskill from within.
We urge organisations to consider how they can effectively upskill, upgrade their efficiency and output, as well as enhancing employee retention, all through AI. AI tools can improve employee quality of life, allowing them to spend their time on more impactful work. AI skills are skills employees want, and skills your organisation needs.
Explore our solutions to inject AI capability into your teams, below.
In other news – summer is finally here!
That means those in the education sector (and beyond) are taking some well-deserved time away.
If the summer period brings you some additional free time, remember you don’t have to press pause on learning and development.
Maybe you’re interested in upskilling to boost performance in your current role.
Maybe you are shooting for career goals that requires technical skills which have been hard to access in-role or through traditional education.
Or, perhaps you are even considering a career pivot after coming back from a break feeling rejuvenated...
Whoever and wherever you are, self-paced learning can offer a way to upskill continuously, and flexibly. You can learn more about self-paced training, and explore our library, here.
Course Leaderboard
Curious to see what everyone else is buying? Here are our 10 top selling courses of the month:
Have a look back on the things you have missed from our previous newsletters
Higher Education and Universities
How can you protect your budgets against underspend for next year, with security and flexibility?
Attracting overseas students, and your financial forecast
Past QA Hot News
Check out past events, blogs and news...
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