...a permanent, meritocratic Civil Service, based on the guiding principles of integrity, honesty, objectivity and political impartiality that we still adhere to today. There have been officials, advisers, administrators and...
...principle of public service reform is curiosity, curiosity about what actually works. Today the best reformers are mining the data for insights, trialling out variations of a policy, discarding the...
...and introduced me to binary systems, programmable calculators and early home computers such as the ZX81. In 1981, before going to university, I worked for GEC’s research lab, writing code...
...talk today. In my own department – the Government Legal Department – we’re using today to talk about the launch of our own mental health First Aider scheme. Have a...
...And for anyone whose job involves managing contracts or suppliers, we have a 1 day Masterclass in Managing Contractors. There are also 5 free e-learning modules on Commercial Awareness, available...
...of Civil Service leaders? If you have any other thoughts about the leadership strategy, please feel free to comment below or send them directly to the Leadership Strategy Team: CSLeadership@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk...
...offered 100 free places as an incentive to find out more. We had some great feedback from the pilot courses and used quotes in the emails from named staff to...
...Courses). It may sound like the nickname of a Prohibition-era American gangster, but a MOOC is essentially a free online course that anyone can take part in. Mainly run by...
...change is that it is much easier to substitute a similar behaviour than to eliminate an entrenched one, with the ultimate goal of individuals becoming free of nicotine dependence. However,...
...could either be totally pain free, but in a ‘haze’ of high doses of medication, or accept a manageable level of pain and rebuild. I decided to fight, not to...
