Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Clients, Past and Present

  • The government has published the outcomes of its major teacher training review, outlining how the sector could be radically reshaped over the course of the next academic year. The Times Educational Supplement (TES) adds: “The Department for Education (DfE) expert advisory group, appointed to draw up plans for a more “effective and efficient” initial teacher…

  • The path towards automated, autonomous mobility is complex to the extent that there is no single path to achieve it. However, this transition it is either viewed as an automaker initiative or as a technology disruptor. Location intelligence plays its part in this process. It entails the collation, analysis and distribution of geospatial data to…

  • Dr. Jo Foster, Director of The Institute for Research in Schools, believes girls studying and working in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) is a cause to celebrate and not one for complacency. Rightly so. In her 13th August 2021 article for Schools Week in this topic, she suggests that the increasing success of girls…

  • Connected and autonomous vehicles need a way to connect to a mobile network. Ericsson predicts that all the manufactured vehicles will be cellular-enabled by 2025, “leading to an enhanced driving experience made possible by innovative connected services, like assisted driving and better infotainment”. Being cellular-enabled will require the vehicles to have e-SIMS to connect them…

  • The future of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) depends on a number of factors, and one of the most vital ones is cyber-security. Protecting the vehicles, the highways and the infrastructure that support them is now seen as one of the key elements to accelerating the technologies. One emerging technology that will inevitably have an…

  • Many of the proponents for autonomous vehicles say they are safer than human drivers, reducing accidents, deaths, and injuries. However, an article by Tony Gillespie, visiting professor, electronic and electrical engineering at the University College London (UCL) in Engineering and Technology magazine says it is inevitable that the vehicles themselves will be involved in accidents.…

  • Business and technology journalist Graham Jarvis reports on how cryptocurrencies and blockchain can improve access to healthcare.

  • Vervoort and his co-authors Camila R Guetter and Alexander W Peters write: “Health disparities remain vast around the world and are perpetuated by error-prone information technology systems, administrative inefficiencies and wasteful global health spending. Blockchain technology, a novel, distributed peer-to-peer ledger technology, is increasingly used in various industries to disintermediate, improve efficiency and transparency and…

  • Teachers often work long hours and feel under pressure, making teacher retention an all-too-common issue. Even long before the Covid-19 pandemic, school standards minister Nick Gibb revealed in 2016, in response to a parliamentary question, that between 2012 and 2017 on average 30 percent of Newly Qualified Teachers gave up the profession, and 13 percent…

  • While much of The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) have been incorporated into UK law, it’s still important to consider what has changed in terms of how companies – particularly UK-based ones – ensure compliance to data protection regulations. It was argued in 2017 by Index Engines that GDPR puts personal data back…