Economics, government & business

Former CBI chief Dibgy, Lord Jones of Birmingham, has admitted that his skills envoy job was only half finished when...

Freelancers, the self-employed and small business owners – nearly four million people – have been left out of the government’s skills...

ConstructionSkills, the skills council for the construction industry, has announced that it will provide a record £140m in grants for...

Health services in the UK will get a major boost through an annual allocation of £100m of additional funds to...

A fall in unemployment has been welcomed as evidence of a labour market recovery.Office for National Statistics figures showed that...

Workers at global business information publisher Lexis Nexis have voted to strike in a bid to force the company to...

The government has called for a ‘skills revolution’ in its official response to the Leitch Review, setting out what it...

A new “jobs pledge” aiming to find employment opportunities for 250,000 people currently on benefit is at the heart of...

The government should abolish all existing unemployment benefits in favour of a flat-rate payment, according to an independent thinktank.The Institute for...

The Sports Council for Wales  is to invest funding of £2m into growing the fitness of the Welsh workforce.The council will...

The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) has demanded “urgent confirmation” that thousands of Metronet workers’ jobs...

Past shortcomings in government-led skills and training initiatives will put many employers off signing the skills pledge. Nevertheless, they should...

We predicted at the beginning of this year that skills would be a top priority for businesses in 2007.Half way...

“Not another meeting!” has become a familiar corporate grumble. UK workers believe that more than one-third of meetings are not...

The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) has missed a “real opportunity” to make the radical curriculum changes needed to give...