In an unprecedented move, the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, will make an appearance at tomorrow’s board meeting of the Association of British Insurers, where the trade body will press him on a range of issues including tax and regulation.
The ABI board, chaired by Archie Kane, who runs Scottish Widows, invited Mr Darling – the first time [...]
The chancellor, Alistair Darling, promised extra funds to salvage struggling schools and to boost the skills of the British workforce in his budget speech today.To ram home the message of responsible investment for the future, despite economic difficulties, he said that a target to lift the results of 638 schools that have fewer than 30% [...]
Is the face of education about to change for good? If a recent announcement from the prime minister is anything to go by, further education colleges as we know them, serving all ages from mid-teens to the grave, could be a thing of the past.Students aged over 19 may soon have their own institutions. The [...]
The government’s new quickie courses for teaching foreigners just as much English as they require to work seems like an efficient idea. But does it really take half the time to teach someone to speak only work-related English as it does to teach them English for life in general?That’s the obvious question raised by the [...]
