Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Wednesday, 7 June 2017

“There is no magic money tree” say the people who think there's a magic housing tree, health, education and police trees

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OUR RELATED STORIES: £100bn a year is missing from our high streets thanks to 50 years of pay squeezes Why does everyone say i...
Tuesday, 16 May 2017

The big question: who was behind the NHS malware?

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Fee and KJ hazard a guess... SOURCE PUBLIC SECTOR EXECUTIVE : Lib Dems join Labour in pledge to scrap 1% public sector pay cap Li...
Thursday, 16 February 2017

Grammar schools are asking parents for donations to cover funding cuts

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Fee and KJ identify our last remaining hope for social mobility... SOURCE GUARDIAN : Grammar schools ask parents for donations to cove...
Friday, 22 April 2016

The EU enforces laws we didn’t agree to? Any more than our “Tory mandate” govt does?!

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Chris and KJ work themselves up over the EU referendum... OUR RELATED STORIES: Election 2015: more voters swung left than right. ...
Thursday, 10 March 2016

Privately educated elite continues to take top jobs

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SOURCE GUARDIAN : Privately schooled people still dominate law, politics, medicine and journalism despite signs of progress The Sut...
Friday, 21 August 2015

What happened to our promise not to make future generations pay for the debt we created?

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Chris finds out from his professor chum... SOURCE GUARDIAN : Soaring student rents push college accommodation to brink of crisis Bet...
Monday, 29 June 2015

It's not just school kids who worry about their grades. The government has similar problems. But for the government there are ways around this students can only dream of!

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For years the government has struggled with both Grade Inflation (us) and Grade Deflation (them). In schools grades were inflating too muc...
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Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Cameron admits his promise to freeze the education budget is, in fact, a cut

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SOURCE DAILY MAIL : Education spending to be cut in real terms after the election. Cameron admits 'difficult decision' will...
Thursday, 4 December 2014

Graphs at a glance: Government reforms of Higher Education and Family Health created thousands more Administrator jobs, but no more teachers or nurses.

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Some interesting graphs we stumbled across during our general research show how Administrators have been the big winners from reforms in bot...
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Sunday, 31 August 2014

Graphs at a glance: ONS stats show 47% of those who graduated in the last 5 years are doing non-graduate jobs. The second biggest destination of new graduates in 2012 was catering, waiters, and bar staff.

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Office of National Statistics (ONS) figures show a strong correlation between having a degree and being wealthy . However, 'correlation...
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Friday, 25 July 2014

At last! From September 2014 financial education becomes part of the national curriculum in schools!

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Fee, KJ and Chris wonder what difference it'll make...
Friday, 6 June 2014

Rule u-turn means student loan debt WILL count against you getting a mortgage

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Chris and his professor chum try to work out all the implications...
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Tuesday, 15 April 2014

In the 30 years since 1983, the British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey shows fewer than 1 in 10 Britons want taxes cut

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Thursday, 10 April 2014

Graphs at a glance: Tories abolished 50% tax rate for people earning more than £150k. But did you notice the stealthy 51% tax rate for graduates earning more than £43k?

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Did they or didn't they? Did the Tories abolish the 50% tax rate, or didn't they.  Actually, they did and they didn't:  a) T...
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Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Lessons on the dangers of loan sharks are being launched in our schools. Why stop with loan sharks?

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Friday, 17 January 2014

Academies caught paying millions of taxpayer money in fees to firms owned by the school directors and trustees

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KJ, Chris and Fee get to the heart of the public/private debate...
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Saturday, 14 December 2013

Graphs at a glance: Whether Free Schools are any good or not, they cost half as much to build as traditional schools. Is this the real reason the government is so keen on them?

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A National Audit Office (NAO) report published in December 2013 reported that 'free schools' were costing twice as much (on average...
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Saturday, 30 November 2013

Liebrary: PFI saves us virtually nothing, if you believe the NAO’s figures. If you believe the Commons Treasury Committee, it costs us a vast amount that nobody has yet quantified

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Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) were first used by the Conservatives in 1992, were enthusiastically embraced by Labour when they came in...
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