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UCU today said that university staff deserved praise for the continuing high levels of satisfaction amongst students.
Fines will not help hospitals struggling with funding cuts
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:28:00 GMT
Ofsted's report highlights the importance of schools working together collaboratively to meet the needs of excluded pupils.
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:28:00 GMT
Ofsted's report highlights the importance of schools working together collaboratively to meet the needs of excluded pupils.
Inflation continues to heap misery onto council workers
Responding to the Chancellor's speech to City analysts in London today (Tuesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
“The Chancellor has a different definition of fairness to the rest of us.
“His spending cuts are hitting the most vulnerable, his one big tax rise was VAT – the unfairest tax of all – and his economic policies are bearing down on the young, trapped between unemployment and an education sector with not enough places.
A new report on social mobility published by the TUC today (Tuesday) reveals Alan Milburn has much to do in his new role as social mobility tsar for the coalition Government.
Social Mobility – the TUC's most recent in a series of bi-monthly economic reports – finds that in Britain 50 per cent of a child's future earning potential is determined at birth, compared to less than 20 per cent in Canada, Australia, Denmark, Norway and Finland. The UK has the worst record on this front of any of the countries the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has data for, also lagging behind the US, Italy, France and Germany.
Latest details on the agreement between BAA and Unite.
The double threat of inflation and brutal cuts to public services is a poisonous mix for Britain's economy.