CBI calls for 'skills passport' boost
Business leaders are backing the idea of a "skills passport" to boost the flagging skills revolution. In a new report, Realising the Vision: A Skills Passport, the Confederation of British Industry...
Business leaders are backing the idea of a "skills passport" to boost the flagging skills revolution. In a new report, Realising the Vision: A Skills Passport, the Confederation of British Industry...
Dolly the sheep had two 'parents' - one private, the other public. Olga Wojtas talks to the MD who saw that cloning could be profitable The science story of 1997 was undoubtedly the cloning of Dolly...
Emma Westcott hopes the Dearing inquiry will resist the temptation to develop higher education at the expense of its poorer relative THERE are important similarities between the report of the...
The National Health Service
Students stranded by Brown's budget. FEES for students became a near certainty this week when Gordon Brown's budget failed to find any extra cash for higher education. While the Chancellor managed to...
Competence-based training is not new to the Scottish vocational and education and training scene. Assessments based on the ability to demonstrate and do, and assessment and education and training...
AS European Union leaders this week thrashed out the Treaty of Amsterdam, the Labour Government proved it could take as firm a stand as its predecessor when it felt its interests are threatened. But...
Hope and Glory
Tim Lang, Erik Millstone and Mike Rayner send a memo to the prime minister on why international experience suggests he should set up a new food agency. Now the general election has passed, the new...
British officials will next week call on the European Space Agency to slash its Pounds 0 million annual budget by 25 per cent over a five-year period. At a meeting of space ministers from ESA member...
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Miners, Unions and Politics, 1910-1947
Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown yesterday committed his party to boosting the science budget to levels last seen in 1979. Giving the Save British Science Society annual lecture at Imperial...
Diversification, Refocusing and Economic Performance - Corporate Governance
NEARLY 40 per cent of assessors of national vocational qualifications admit to passing sub-standard students, according to a survey out this week. The finding is a big blow to the Government's...