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News
- Apprenticeship boom a poor use of public funds, says IFS (Independent)
- Rates valuation could finish off high street, warn small businesses(Guardian)
- Peer-to-peer lenders to be prevented from offering wholesale finance as it is considered too risky for private individuals (Mail Online)
- 85% of startups feel like they are ‘winging it’ (Startups.co.uk)
Opinion
- Bosses should speak out on political events (Julian Harris, deputy editor, CityAM)
- Economic illiteracy is helping the bad guys win (Connor Lane, scholar, Mannkal Economic Education Foundation)
- Suits are as likely to be great innovators as skinny-jean hipsters (Rohan Silva, co-founder, Second Home)
- There are big choices ahead on immigration – we need a national conversation about what to do (Sunder Katwala, director, British Future)
- Does experiential leaning benefit budding entrepreneurs? (Natalie Clarkson, writer, Virgin comments on new research suggesting learning by experience may be no better than through textbooks)
- Saving a family business from emotional dysfunction (Manfred F R Kets de Vreis, prof of leadership development, INSEAD)
Features
- Prison entrepreneurship: ‘Giving a little bit of belief goes a long way’ (The Guardian profiles the Centre’s prison entrepreneurship programme at HMP Ranby)
- Maggots help MBA student find wriggle room in the recycling market (FT)
- Raising social awareness is driving a business start-up revolution (Invest Edinburgh feature in CityAM)
- How do you build Africa’s newest tech ecosystem when the government shuts the internet down? (Qz feature on Cameroon)