by Chris Rogers | 6 Jan 2014 | Welfare
Labour Leader Ed Miliband has pledged to prevent low-paid foreign agency staff from undercutting UK people seeking employment. Miliband said that if Labour wins in 2015, the Government would work with businesses to close a European Union loophole which allows...
by Chris Rogers | 4 Jan 2014 | Uncategorized
A Freedom of Information request by the Daily Mail has revealed that four in ten A&E departments are hiring family doctors to cover night shifts and weekends, at a cost of almost £1,500 a time, in order to cope with soaring patient numbers. Daily...
by Chris Rogers | 3 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services
Analysis of vice-chancellor pay at 19 Russell Group institutions show an average salary of £293,000 in 2012-13. The figures from Times Higher Education magazine, reveal much higher rises for university top brass than the 1% agreed that year for rank-and-file staff....
by Chris Rogers | 18 Nov 2013 | Education & Children's Services, Employment
The President of the Association of Colleges has described the quality of careers guidance available in schools in England is “nothing less than appalling”. Michele Sutton says there needs to be more impartial advice and called for more funding for the National...
by Chris Rogers | 13 Nov 2013 | Education & Children's Services
Education Secretary Michael Gove used a speech on child protection to argue that all young people should get the same opportunities as he received. Gove paid tribute to the social workers who “transformed” his life by placing him with loving adoptive parents when he...
