NPP and mayors call for the north to lead green Industrial Revolution
11.03.22 Our vice-chair Professor Juergen Maier CBE has joined forces with northern mayors Andy Burnham, Tracy Brabin, Dan Jarvis...
Read moreCan ‘Smart’ Opportunity Areas help close the education disadvantage gap?
28.01.22 In 2016, Secretary of State for Education Justine Greening introduced a new initiative to increase social mobility in...
Read moreNorthern regions lose out on levelling up funding post-Brexit
03.02.22 Every region in England except Cornwall risks seeing funding halved post Brexit, analysis of the Shared Prosperity Fund...
Read more‘Second-class’ rail investment for the north, as government publishes IRP
19.11.21 Yesterday the government published its much-anticipated Integrated Rail Plan and confirmed that the eastern leg of HS2 will...
Read moreThe North delivered almost a third of UK green investment performance in 2020, finds EY
20.10.21 The North of England attracted almost a third (29%) of the UK’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) backed cleantech...
Read moreNorth takes a lead in carbon capture technology
19.10.21 Two Northern schemes have been selected as forerunners in a carbon capture and storage cluster programme by the...
Read moreNorthern Powerhouse Rail could boost economy by £22bn in next three decades
12.10.21 One key section of Northern Powerhouse Rail alone could deliver a £22bn boost to the Northern economy by...
Read moreNorth East A-Level results fall behind
10.08.21 There were more worrying signs of a growing North-South divide in education today, as A-Level students across the...
Read moreFormer Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield joins NPP
26.07.21 The former Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield is joining the board of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership (NPP)...
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