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UK / Blackburn with Darwen Council to cut 500 jobs
Blackburn with Darwen Council – The “painful” cuts package is to fill a funding gap of up to £30m – about 20% of the total council budget. Other potential cost-saving measures include reduced library opening hours, less grass cutting and street cleaning and stopping school clothing grants. The latest measures come on the back of savings totalling … Continue reading
UK / 5,300 Soldiers To Lose Jobs
More than 5,000 soldiers will be made redundant in the latest round of job cuts, the Government has announced. The Army will bear the heaviest burden in this third wave of redundancies because the Navy and RAF have already completed most of their necessary cuts. Up to 5,300 soldiers will lose their jobs, although anyone … Continue reading
UK / 58 per cent for students leaving university in 2012 out of a job or in low-skilled employment
It is feared that the graduate jobs market will barely improve in 2013. The conclusions – in a study by the website CareerMatters.co.uk – comes just days after a separate report found that employers were receiving 56 applications for each graduate job, a seven per cent rise on the previous year. Researchers said that a … Continue reading
UK / Finance to cut another 18,000 jobs
Banks, insurers, asset managers and other finance firms cut 25,000 jobs in the final quarter of 2012, with banking seeing the deepest drop, the survey of 94 companies showed. The cuts will means about 132,000 jobs have been lost in the sector since the downturn began in 2008, when it employed around 1 million people, … Continue reading
UK / Blockbuster: 760 jobs to go
Collapsed DVD and games rental firm Blockbuster is to close 129 of its 528 stores in the coming weeks and make 760 of its 4,190 employees redundant , its administrator confirmed today. Thirty-one stores have already been put on notice of closure with a number of closing-down promotions announced. Lee Manning, of administrator Deloitte, said: … Continue reading
UK / Worcestershire County Council / To cut another 650 jobs
An extra 650 jobs cuts will not affect front line services according to the leader of Worcestershire County Council. The council has said the jobs will go by 2017, in addition to 850 redundancies it has already announced. Council leader Adrian Hardman said it would be “principally backroom jobs” that will go at County Hall … Continue reading
Solihull, UK / Jaguar Land Rover to create 800 jobs
Britain’s car-making industry, stung by the loss of 800 jobs in Swindon last week, is to receive a boost from Jaguar Land Rover, which is to create jobs in Solihull. The announcement of the decision to put £370m of investment and 800 additional roles into the West Midlands plant was timed to coincide with the … Continue reading
Literacy / UK: 4 in 10 boys do not own any books
“Research reveals startlingly high numbers of boys and girls have no books of their own, with worrying implications for their future prospects. Three in 10 children in the UK do not own a single book of their own, with alarming implications for their future prospects, according to new research. The survey by the National Literacy … Continue reading
UK / The fit between graduate labour market supply and demand
In The fit between graduate labour market supply and demand, Gaby Atfield and Kate Purcell examine 3rd year UK undergraduate degree final year students’ perceptions of the skills they have to offer and the skills employers seek. Main findings As they approached the end of their undergraduate courses, over 80% of respondents believed that they have the skills employers are likely to be … Continue reading
UK / Honda cuts 800 jobs at Swindon
Honda is cutting 800 jobs in Swindon as the shrinking European car market forces the company into its first ever UK job cuts. Honda blamed the slump in European sales as it announced it will cut its Swindon workforce by almost a quarter, months after hiring hundreds of new employees. “It’s entirely the car market,” … 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 / Amazon / 100 jobs created in London’s ‘Silicon Roundabout’
Internet retailer Amazon is to create a further 100 jobs at its new digital media development centre in London. The site opened last September in the Old Street area and concentrates on the design and development of new digital media projects. Teams working at Amazon-owned firms Pushbutton and Lovefilm are also based there. Making the … Continue reading
UK / Immigration / Should a fall in immigration be cheered?
“Britain is home to the greatest workforce in Europe. The Poles,” runs a favourite joke of comedian Jimmy Carr. But while immigration might make a good punchline, for many businesses the economic implications of who moves where have a clear effect on the bottom line. Britain has a record of welcoming immigrants, from M&S co-founder … Continue reading
UK / Digital Divide / A third of poorest pupils ‘without internet at home’
More than a third of the poorest children do not have the internet at home and a similar number do not have a computer, official figures suggest. A new breakdown of Office of National Statistics (ONS) data also showed that children from the wealthiest homes all had internet and computer access. Campaigners say this ‘digital … Continue reading
UK / Penguin Books publisher to close apprenticeship unit: 5,000 apprentices and 500 jobs could be cut
The media and education group, which also owns publisher Penguin Books, said that changes to the way apprenticeship schemes are funded had had a “radical” impact on demand for the courses offered by Pearson in Practice, which are tailored to specific industries and each last between three months and a year. Around 5,000 apprentices signed … Continue reading
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