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FSB: Revitalise rural economy by providing superfast broadband by 2015
New figures show that six in 10 rural businesses are suffering with the slow speed of their broadband, as the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) calls for the majority of the countryside to have access to superfast broadband by 2015 to revitalise the rural economy.
"Yet the Government response has been to effectively halve funding for... the most rational long-term solutions to fuel poverty." - Jenny Saunders, National Energy Action.
“Giving parents a slice of a smaller pie does not give them more control. The most important issue that faces their children is insufficient funding and cuts." - Chris Blower, NUT, on SEN proposals.
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Festival of Social Sciences: Celebrating the Social Sciences
Evidence-based policy should not be a radical concept. It needs to be celebrated.
Festival of Social Sciences: 2 languages: 2 brains, 2 minds, 2 cultures?
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, the Deafness Cognition And Language Research Centre (DCAL) hosted an event exploring the powerful benefits of bilingualism in spoken and sign languages, for hearing and deaf people alike - benefits that reach hearing and deaf people alike.
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CPA: Construction Recession Deeper than Previously Estimated in Q1
Today’s data from the ONS show that construction output fell by 5% in the first quarter of 2012, considerably worse than the estimate of -3% that ONS previously indicated for GDP in Q1.
NASUWT: Secretary of state sets a bad example on financial practice
Commenting on the Public Accounts Committee report on the Department for Education (DfE) published today, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers' union, said:
IET: Heathrow targets real-time data and smart technology to become more resilient and efficient
Heathrow Airport is focusing on investment in real-time data and systems and smart technologies to overcome the daily challenges it faces as the world’s busiest airport, according to Philip Langsdale, Chief Information Officer, Information Technology at Heathrow Airport.
“Common sense has prevailed” says RHA
The Road Haulage Association is pleased that the tanker drivers at the heart of the long-running dispute have voted against strike action in a re-ballot
New BHA research reveals most new ‘faith’ schools opening ‘by the back door’
Every single ‘faith’ school proposed to be fast-tracked through the opening process without competition in the last five years was approved.
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FSB: Revitalise rural economy by providing superfast broadband by 2015
New figures show that six in 10 rural businesses are suffering with the slow speed of their broadband, as the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) calls for the majority of the countryside to have access to superfast broadband by 2015 to revitalise the rural economy.
CML: Gross mortage lending declines in April
Gross mortgage lending declined to an estimated £10.2 billion in April. Lending fell by 19% from £12.6 billion in March but was 2% higher than the total of £10.0 billion in April 2011, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
ESRC: Soldiers who desecrate the dead see themselves as hunters
Modern day soldiers who mutilate enemy corpses or take body-parts as trophies are usually thought to be suffering from the extreme stresses of battle. But, research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) shows that this sort of misconduct has most often been carried out by fighters who viewed the enemy as racially different from themselves and used images of the hunt to describe their actions.
Unite: Crime reporting will fall if police service privatised
New survey and film reinforce need to ditch police privatisation for good
Good news in the campaign to defend standards for lab animals - but it has been ‘a battle simply to stand still’ says RSPCA
Lab animals won’t lose hard-fought protections in the UK after the government appears to have listened to the outcry from members of the public and the concerns of the RSPCA, it was revealed today.
Special event coverage
Festival of Social Sciences: Celebrating the Social Sciences
Evidence-based policy should not be a radical concept. It needs to be celebrated.
Festival of Social Sciences: 2 languages: 2 brains, 2 minds, 2 cultures?
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, the Deafness Cognition And Language Research Centre (DCAL) hosted an event exploring the powerful benefits of bilingualism in spoken and sign languages, for hearing and deaf people alike - benefits that reach hearing and deaf people alike.
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