We applaud the decision by Orchard Information Systems to start an apprenticeship scheme (see page 4) for local school leavers who don’t want to go to university (or perhaps can’t afford it, given the cost of fees these days). The year-long apprenticeships are mutually beneficial, with the apprentices having the opportunity to ‘earn while they…
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Editor's Notes
Editor’s notes: Housing without frontiers
We are predicting that the growth in mobile working for both in-house and field-based workers, the increase in unified communications and cloud services, and the widespread availability of tablets and smartphone devices will form the ‘perfect storm’ necessary to cause a revolution in the way housing providers run their operations and the agility with which…
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Editor’s Notes: Now we are four – Future trends
This issue marks the end of our fourth year of publishing Housing Technology, and despite the wider economy, technology developments in the social housing sector have never looked rosier. Not only is housing higher on the agenda at the most senior levels of government, our view is that the sector’s adoption and use of IT…
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Editor’s Notes: Encouraging direct engagement
We recently had the opportunity to see a novel way for housing providers and IT suppliers to work together to improve tenant services and their immediate environment. George Grant, publisher of Housing Technology, was invited by Family Mosaic to one of its properties in south London that was getting a ‘face lift’ courtesy of 80…
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Editor’s Notes: Housing fundamentals
Despite wider economic gloom, our informal and naturally rather subjective view is that the housing sector, and in particular its technology infrastructure, is pretty buoyant. One reason for this is that there is always demand for housing, with this obviously increasing when the economy declines. At risk of going a little ‘off piste’, a good…
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Editor’s Notes: Whose bin is it anyway?
The government’s not-so-united stance on how public services should be delivered and the degree to which the private sector should be involved is a good catalyst to stimulate the debate on the advantages and disadvantages of shared services. While the government may be scaling back its plans to privatise (in effect) many public-sector services out…
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