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UK / An overhaul of vocational education
Teenagers in England are to be offered the chance to take new courses in engineering and construction as part of an overhaul of vocational education. Ministers said they would develop seven qualifications in the two subjects to equip youngsters with relevant skills. The Department for Education also said thousands of vocational qualifications which were “of … Continue reading
Boston, England / The influx of immigrants in a small British city
When Ziedonis Barbaks arrived in Boston, England, to work at a meat-packing plant nine years ago, the city was a pretty lonely place for someone from Latvia. Almost nobody came from his home country or from just about anywhere else outside of Britain. Today there are not only hundreds of Latvians in Boston but thousands … Continue reading
UK / Network Rail to cut 4,000 jobs
Network Rail has unveiled huge investment plans to develop the UK’s railway infrastructure between 2014 and 2019, involving the centralisation of its signalling operations to save millions of pounds and drastically reduce its frontline workforce over the next fifteen years. The mammoth Strategic Business Plan for England and Wales places heavy emphasis on the role … Continue reading
UK 2011 Census / Key Statistics
The resident population of England and Wales on 27 March 2011 was 56.1 million, a seven per cent (3.7 million) increase since 2001 with 55 per cent (2.1 million) of this increase being due to migration. One in six people were aged 65 or over (16 per cent, 9.2 million). Most residents of England and … Continue reading
UK / Army / Redundancies and cuts ‘hurting’ forces personnel
The Government has been warned that service personnel are “hurting” because of redundancies and cuts as further details of a scheme to boost support for the armed forces were revealed. Defence Minister Andrew Robathan announced that more than £423,000 had been allocated to 13 bids in England for local projects funded through the community covenant … Continue reading
UK / Derby City Council cuts another 350 jobs
A further 350 jobs are to go at Derby City Council, taking the total number of cuts to 1,000 in three years. The cuts have been announced as council bosses said the authority needed to reduce its budget by £63m by 2015. City council leader Paul Bayliss said it was also looking at other ways … Continue reading
UK / Newcastle Council cuts 1,300 jobs
More than 1,300 jobs are to be axed by a North East council struggling to trim £90m from its budget. Newcastle City Council – which employs 10,500 staff – will also shut 10 libraries, although it said its new £24m city centre library was safe. A spokesman blamed rising costs and a greater demand for … Continue reading
Brit Grads – 40% failing to get graduate-calibre posts
Britain’s graduates face an increasingly challenging jobs market, with 40% failing to get graduate-calibre posts more than two years after leaving education, around twice the proportion of their peers a decade earlier, according to a study of recent ex-students’ career paths. Overall, the vaunted graduate salary premium, a key argument in persuading would-be students to … Continue reading
UK – Comet – 6,000 layoffs ?
More than 6,000 jobs are at risk as the troubled high-street electricals chain Comet teeters on the edge of administration. Comet, the UK’s second largest electrical specialist after Dixons, has struggled to make headway as supermarkets and online retailers such as Amazon targeted the cut-throatmarket, and could go into administration as soon as Thursday. It … Continue reading
Ryanair promises hundreds of jobs
Ryanair has said an increase in its flights to and from East Midlands airport could create up to 460 jobs. The budget airline announced yesterday it will be adding new services to Marseille and Menorca from the Castle Donington airport, and expanding 17 of its existing 38 routes which already fly from there… via Airline … Continue reading
UK – Job programme – Almost 1 in 2 employer is unaware
More than a year after the introduction of the government’s ambitious Work Programme, the CIPD warns today that it needs to build on the scheme’s early progress by increasing awareness and understanding of the scheme amongst employers. In a survey of more than 1,000 employers, drawn from all three main sectors of the economy, the … Continue reading
England – Arts Council jobs cut
The reduction in staff from around 559 jobs to 442 will be accompanied by closures of offices and mergers of regions, as part of a strategy which the organisation’s chief executive, Alan Davey, said would result in ACE doing less but doing that … . Arts Council England jobs to be cut . http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/oct/30/arts-council-england-jobs-cut
UK – 1/4 of British babies are children of immigrants
There were 808,000 births in the UK last year, of which 196,000 were children born to non-UK born women – or 24 per cent. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows there has been a steady increase in the number of children born to mothers who were born abroad since 2001, when the … Continue reading
England – Carbon capture and storage projects could 4,000 jobs
Investing in carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Yorkshire and Humber will provide a major boost to the UK economy, generating £1.3bn and 4,000 skilled-jobs, a new report to be launched tomorrow has revealed. The report comes just weeks before the government is due to announce the winners of billion pounds worth of funding and … Continue reading
UK – Record sum in vocational education
The coalition is investing a record sum in the kind of educational opportunities that 16 to 18 year-olds need Polly Toynbee writes of the “shocking news … that the number of 16-year-olds staying on in education has fallen for the first time in years”. It is hardly shocking when you consider that the fall in … Continue reading
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