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Entry requirements for teacher training in England are too low , a Commons education select committee has said. The committee said graduates applying for post-graduate certificate of education (PGCE) courses should have at least a lower second   More...
09 February 2010 10:50

The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) will today launch a new governance code, urging pension funds and other institutional investors to promote better standards. The NAPF will recommend that institutional investors engage more closely wi  More...
09 February 2010 09:32

Workers at Cadbury's Somerdale plant at Keynsham, near Bristol, are at risk of losing their jobs, despite new owner Kraft's earlier pledge to keep the factory open. According to the Times , the plant is to close, with the loss of 400 jobs. Cadbu  More...
09 February 2010 09:06

Metropolitan police commander Ali Dizaei has been jailed for four years after been convicted of falsely arresting a man. Dizaei was also found to have made up his account of being assaulted and threatened by Waad al-Baghdadi. A jury at Southwark c  More...
09 February 2010 08:50

Prison officers are more than twice as likely to be reported for racism as prisoners, according to the latest government figures. Ministry of Justice complaints data found alleged racist incidents across England and Wales' 139 prisons have risen by  More...
09 February 2010 08:42

The HR jobs market has once again grown "pretty substantially" following a long period of decline during the recession, a study of online vacancies has revealed. The Monster Employment Index, out today, has shown that the number of HR jobs advertise  More...
09 February 2010 00:02

The dramatic graduate job cuts feared last summer have failed to materialise, according to the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) biannual survey. Vacancies in 2009 actually fell by 8.9%, far less than the 24.9% predicted during last summer's   More...
09 February 2010 00:01

CBI boss Richard Lambert has urged private sector firms to pump cash into the higher education system to help soften the blow of funding cuts, Personnel Today has learned. Last week the Higher Education Funding Council revealed that university bud  More...
08 February 2010 15:58

Employees who have suffered discrimination are entitled to receive 'stigma damages' because they will undoubtedly struggle to find new work, the Court of Appeal has ruled. In the case of Chagger v Abbey National (2009), the court held that new emp  More...
08 February 2010 10:17

A Foreign Office whistleblower who leaked secret documents to raise concerns about the government's terrorism policy is set take on his former bosses at an employment tribunal. Derek Pasquill is seeking compensation for loss of earnings and injury t  More...
08 February 2010 10:08

The scramble for graduate jobs has led to university leavers 'blanket-applying' to firms across sectors, with most ready to accept more than one job offer to hedge their bets, the latest research has found. The warning comes as more than half of las  More...
08 February 2010 09:45

Tesco is today set to begin a management scheme for 16-year-old school leavers that offers them an "earn-while-you-learn" alternative to the education system. Applicants to the supermarket's fast-track two-year scheme, which earns recruits three A-  More...
08 February 2010 08:54

More than 15,000 university jobs could be shed over the next few years as a result of Peter Mandelson's budget cuts, a higher education union has warned. Other plans include using post-graduates rather than professors for teaching and postponing majo  More...
08 February 2010 08:43

A teacher who claims he was sacked for challenging his pupils' racist remarks is set to have his case heard at tribunal today. Nicholas Kafouris, a Christian, said some pupils at the predominantly Muslim Bigland Green Primary School where he had tau  More...
08 February 2010 08:33

Public sector HR chiefs must improve performance management and look at best practice from other sectors to help deal with forthcoming budget cuts , experts have warned. The call follows the release of a Chartered Institute of Personnel and Dev  More...
05 February 2010 16:29

A police HR chief has defended putting new officer recruits on waiting lists to start their jobs - despite some waiting up to a year. It emerged this week that the Met Police had deferred 2,000 successful officer applicants to 2011 after they had pas  More...
05 February 2010 15:22

The Liberal Democrat transport spokesman has waded into the campaign against the alleged discriminatory behaviour of Network Rail's HR director, Personnel Today has learned. Norman Baker told the magazine he was in "correspondence" with Network Ra  More...
05 February 2010 15:16

HR news and analysis including: The latest developments in the case of Network Rail HR director Peter Bennett, who is facing accusations of discrimination The new fit-note strategy and whether the HR community expects it to work The threat  More...
05 February 2010 14:43

Social care staff at Derbyshire Council feel "devalued and angry" after being told to accept pay cuts of up to £3,000 or leave their jobs, according to union activists. Social workers fear they could be paid less than unqualified care workers, acc  More...
05 February 2010 09:35

British Airways (BA) is on track to make a record annual pre-tax loss despite a surprise operating profit of £25m in the three months to December, it has emerged. BA's pre-tax loss in the nine months to December 2009 rose to £342m, from £70m in the   More...
05 February 2010 09:26