The College Group

We have returned from the last party conference this year. Party conference season 2011 is officially over. There’s a few tired faces in the office and a few team members are nursing their ‘conference cold’.  Social and mainstream media are still coming to terms with Tim…

On Tuesday, a clutch of nerdy folk from CPP headed off to Portcullis House to listen to a Hansard Society discussion on the effectiveness of select committees (events details on Hansard Society website). After a half an hour wait to get into Portcullis House, we were in. We were just…

The Fukushima disaster has led some countries to re-evaluate their commitment to nuclear energy. Philip Dewhurst believes that the nuclear industry must engage in sustained and proactive communication to allay concerns and promote its advantages. There’s a clever Economist advertising campaign running on the London Underground. It promotes…

 Conversation – the next great business idea! As 2011 marks the Tercentenary of Enlightenment Philosopher, David Hume, it is a good time to reflect on his ‘sentiments’ and their resonance today.  One such sentiment was echoed by Ove Arup, engineer, designer and philosopher and founder of the…

Industry must learn crucial communication lessons from past “techno disasters” such as GM and asbestos to ensure greater consumer acceptance of new technologies such as nanotechnology, according to scientific think tank Matter. Nanotechnology involves the engineering of functional systems from a molecular and atomic scale, with at least…