Funds for workbased training should not have to be used to teach basic reading and writing that should be taught at school, says the government spending watchdog
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Lancashire Constabulary has slashed absence rates among police officers by 17% in the past year, effectively putting 25 more officers on the streets each day
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Labour cost predicted to rise by 0.6% overall, but 0.9% for small firms
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Think-tank denounces cost of allowing civil servants to retire at 60
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Training stil popular despite its costs.
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Financial services giant is most popular destination for work placements.
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People who cannot work because of their caring commitments will be given extra pensions credits to help them save for retirement, under government plans.
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Eye to the Future spots world dominated by work.
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A strategy to increase the diversity of the people appointed to be judges has been announced by the minister responsible for the judiciary.
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Recruitment consultants are the least likely group in the City of London to blow the whistle if they find a colleague behaving unethically at work.
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More rail strikes could be on the way as unions ballot their members working in infrastructure and operating companies on changes to the industry's pension scheme.
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Dear Darling letter outlines PM's goals for DTI.
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The NHS's reputation is at risk if hospitals do not clarify which foreign doctors they can recruit under new immigration legislation, according to the British Medical Association (BMA)
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British Airways (BA) has chosen the Bank of New York to administer the $600m (£318m) in annual payments that the airline makes to the members of its pension scheme each year
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Boris Johnson, shadow minister for higher education, has launched an attack on vocational training, saying it is wrong to try to "lobotomise the British public" into thinking it is better than university degrees.