{"id":1738,"date":"2017-11-22T12:04:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T12:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2020-06-24T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T13:00:30","slug":"professor-simon-collinson-interviewed-on-radio-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/professor-simon-collinson-interviewed-on-radio-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Simon Collinson interviewed on Radio 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/07\/SC.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1068\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/07\/SC.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/07\/SC.png 446w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/07\/SC-300x269.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/07\/SC-250x224.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor Simon Collinson, City-REDI, was interviewed this morning on the Today Show, on Radio 4 (22\/11\/17) about the Autumn Budget 2017.<\/p>\n<p>On the show, Professor Collinson talked about some of the current economic issues that the government faces. That despite the\u00a0fact that the UK has\u00a0high levels of employment, it is also experiencing a period of low productivity. Professor Collinson went on to highlight a key factor behind this lack of productivity &#8211; a skills shortage in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the full interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b09fj9jk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, Professor Collinson section starts at 1 hour 19 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To sign up to our blog mailing list, please\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:cityredi@contacts.bham.ac.uk?Subject=City-REDI%20Blog%20Mailing%20List\">click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Simon Collinson, City-REDI, was interviewed this morning on the Today Show, on Radio 4 (22\/11\/17) about the Autumn Budget 2017. On the show, Professor Collinson talked about some of the current economic issues that the government faces. That despite the\u00a0fact that the UK has\u00a0high levels of employment, it is also experiencing a period of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/professor-simon-collinson-interviewed-on-radio-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Professor Simon Collinson interviewed on Radio 4&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":1068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,23,6,785,784,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-city-redi","category-economics","category-impact","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8582,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/8582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}