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the goal is to help develop the skilled workforce that our area needs – now more than ever. Assuming that becomes a reality, opportunities are sure to be out there for the upcoming generations. Optimism might feel in short supply, but it’s there if you look for it closely. While it may seem surprising to some, the number of start-up businesses in the UK has actually increased during the pandemic, as entrepreneurs spot new opportunities; many of these are closely linked to the surge in consumer demand for online goods and services. In our area, the figures were particularly encouraging. Despite the limitations of the pandemic, more businesses were registered in Cambridgeshire in 2020 than ever before, attesting to our area’s will to innovate. Even before Covid-19 struck, educators were reminding us that schools were having to prepare pupils for jobs that didn’t yet exist. The past year – with everyone having to get used to new ways of doing things and mass uncertainty around how much everything would change – has demonstrated the truth of that saying. But, in an area where innovation is almost baked into the community psyche, it’s easy to feel that if anywhere is able to adapt to new ways of thinking, working and being, it surely has to be here. “Children’s love of reading and books, which had reached a 15-year low, has increased during the periods of lockdown”

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