Universities speak of recruitment concerns
University heads today warned ministers that they would not have enough lecturers to teach 50% of young people unless the government ploughed substantial extra funding in...
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Serious profession
Teachers' pay should rise and their conditions improve. That way, more and better recruits will be attracted and their social status will improve in parallel with ever-up...
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EU and US selling poor down the river
The European Union and the United States are robbing the world's poor of billions of dollars each year in export earnings by preaching free trade while protecting their o...
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Flailing France one game from disaster
An era of invincibility appears to be drawing to an ignominious end. France's hopes of retaining the World Cup, already gasping after last week's defeat to Senegal, were ...
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Jubilee in brief
81% want to keep monarchy
Some 81% of people are in favour of retaining the monarchy, but only one in three are planning to attend a golden jubilee event. A poll of by...
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Battling Sale find a silver lining
Sale made it a second successive European double for the Zurich Premiership, following Leicester's success in retaining the Heineken Cup by succeeding Harlequins as the P...
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Gulf in attitudes on the high street
Britain's biggest employers differ sharply in their approach to the pensions crisis, and this divide is amply illustrated by the approach taken by two of the high street'...
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Bolton balance foreirn imports
Sam Allardyce is still intent on retaining Youri Djorkaeff's services at Bolton despite signing Nigerian midfielder Jay Jay Okocha from Paris St Germain.
Okocha has sig...
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Bolton balance foreign imports
Sam Allardyce is still intent on retaining Youri Djorkaeff's services at Bolton despite signing Nigerian midfielder Jay Jay Okocha from Paris St Germain.
Okocha has sig...
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Hammett blow hampers All Blacks
Australia's hopes of retaining the Bledisloe Cup for the fourth year running have improved markedly after New Zealand had to make a late revamp to their front row before ...
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Coral changes horses again in £860m Charterhouse deal
Coral Eurobet, Britain's third largest bookmaker, has been sold to yet another private equity house, with a handful of managers retaining a 15% stake in the company.
Ch...
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Australia boosted by Harrison let-off
Australia's hopes of retaining the Tri Nations title and Bledisloe Cup were boosted yesterday when their fiery lock Justin Harrison escaped suspension by the competition'...
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Restorative policing is not fluffy.
It is tough
I'm now seven months into the job of chief constable of one of the largest police forces in the country. It covers a large, sprawling area including Buckinghamshire, Oxfo...
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Dame Judith Kilpatrick
Dame Judith Kilpatrick, who collapsed and died, aged 50, while directing a teacher training session, was an inspirational headteacher and educational powerhouse with a hu...
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Brain gain
As many as half of New Zealand's institutions of higher learning may soon be scrambling against each other in what looks set to be a dispiriting recruitment drive in Brit...
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Blunkett's cannabis strategy 'flawed
An academic will warn chief police officers that retaining the power of arrest for simple cannabis possession is a sideways step that could lead to confusion among office...
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Mugabe packs new cabinet with loyalists
Robert Mugabe strengthened his hold on the Zimbabwean government yesterday by retaining the most combative hardliner ministers in a cabinet shuffle which offered little h...
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We must find ways of keeping our midwives. Here are some ideas
Oh, that must be such a lovely job" is a common response when I tell people I'm a midwife. And it is. Most of the time. The birth of a baby is an intense and private time...
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Now nurses demand large hike in pay
Nearly one in three nurses has taken on an extra job to make ends meet, Britain's nursing leaders will say tomorrow as they demand a groundbreaking pay hike from the Gove...
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PR field widens for executive finessing
The growing cult of the executive personality has triggered the creation of ReputationInc, a consultancy aimed at building and retaining corporate bosses' positive profil...
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The knives are out for 'disloyal' McCarthy
Mick McCarthy will face his familiar routine as Ireland manager in Dublin this week; the team assembly at an airport hotel, the training sessions, the press conferences, ...
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Getting staff is the key problem
The difficulty in recruiting and retaining top quality teaching staff is the biggest single obstacle to Enfield meeting its challenging education targets in the next few ...
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Cheap travel on cards for teachers
Teachers in London could be offered cheap bus and Tube travel in a bid to ease recruitment problems, education minister Stephen Twigg revealed today.
He told headteacher...
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New drug 'can improve memory
A stimulant that improves mental ability without the common side effects could revolutionise our understanding of forming and retaining memories, say researchers from the...
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Pressure points
Barely any corner of the public services is now untouched by the challenges of working with asylum seekers. And the learning curve has been steep and relentless. With the...
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Hindu right expected to keep power in troubled Gujarat
Early exit polls showed the Hindu nationalist party BJP retaining power last night in the troubled state of Gujarat after the most polarised election in modern Indian his...
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New Ryder Cup system causes confusion
The Ryder Cup qualifying process gets under way this week in Switzerland with the European captain Bernhard Langer pinning his hopes of retaining the trophy on a new sele...
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Washington suggests UN involvement in Iraq
A plan to boost the number of countries sending troops to Iraq while still retaining US military command was today put forward by Washington.
Richard Armitage, the deput...
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£495m polymer sale seals Smiths' core strategy
Smiths Group, the ultra-cautious engineering company, yesterday came under severe pressure to use its £1bn-plus warchest to boost its earnings and dividend after sel...
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Government talks down reshuffle risk
Education secretary Charles Clarke is seeking to reassure social workers that his department's takeover of children's policy from the Department of Health will not cause ...
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