The most recent closure, which ended

"There are lots of conversations now - the advantages and disadvantages - the jobs that will be created," says Dr Tabiri.Africa's fast-growing population, already the youngest in the world, will be the world's largest workforce by 2040, according to the UN.

"But that doesn't mean that we will get the jobs," says Dr Tabiri.She hopes to organise a "quantum road show" as a first step in introducing schoolchildren to quantum science at a much earlier age that she was."We want young people to start developing an interest in and building all the relevant skills during their basic schooling," she says.

The road show will be based on a recent quantum computing course she helped organise for secondary-school girls who attend classes at Aims Ghana during their holidays.The course discussed what it takes to build a quantum computer, its current fragilities - and the challenges quantum computing poses to current systems, such as cryptography.

Working with Unesco, Dr Tabiri will also host a week-long "Quantum Hackathon" in July at Aims-Ghana for about 40 post-graduate students from different African countries.

"We want them to use their quantum skills to solve some of the greatest challenges that we face, real-life problems," says Dr Tabiri., the meeting was told that although the government pledged to invest £25.5bn into the NHS in the autumn budget, no extra money was provided for hospice care.

At the same time, North Yorkshire and York hospices would need to find an extra £140,000 due to the increase in the national minimum wage and a further £650,000 for the increase in employer National Insurance contributions, councillors heard.Mr Collins said: "All of this is set within the context of unprecedented demand through increasing deaths, an ageing population and greater levels of dependency from the NHS on our capacity to support their own."

He added that non-salary costs were "already at baseline".Hospices provide a range of end-of-life and palliative services, including specialist inpatient beds, community-based end-of-life care, outpatient clinics, lymphoedema services and bereavement counselling and support.