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Welfare-to-work: Official figures show job target missed
Economics lecturer Kevin Rowles on the failure of the Government’s Welfare-to-Work scheme misses its target according to official figures The present Government’s scheme for reducing the number of...
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Primary schools face tougher targets, but is raising the bar the solution to...
Dr Shirley Pressler is a chartered psychologist specialising in educational matters. Here she gives her views on the Government raising its test result targets for primary schools. What is proposed...
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Real-world experience required to truly benefit teenagers studying Maths and...
Dr Shirley Pressler CSci CPsychol AFBPsS is a Chartered Psychologist specialising in educational aspects of children’s development and knowledge. Here she comments on the Government’s plans to make...
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Crime and security take a back seat in the Government’s new Housing Standards...
Dr Rachel Armitage is a Reader in Criminology and the Associate Director of the Applied Criminology Centre and she recently published a new book on ‘designing out crime’ in housing entitled Crime...
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EU referendum pledges and 2015 general election result
Professor of Politics Brendan Evans on Labour Leader Ed Miliband’s announcement that a Labour government would not hold a referendum on Europe. The debate over the EU referendum “On Wednesday 12...
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The Budget 2014 – “The budget of ‘hard truths’”
Economics lecturer Kevin Rowles on The Budget delivered by the Chancellor on 19 March, 2014. The Chancellor’s strategy “The budget of ‘hard truths’ was promised by George Osborne this year, but in...
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What will the new Tory government do?
Economist Kevin Rowles comments on whether the new government can stick to the promises made in their election campaign. Which election commitments will be honoured and which will be put quietly to...
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Jo Cox: local MP who left her mark on a Yorkshire constituency
Dr Andrew Mycock is a Reader in Politics at the University of Huddersfield. Here, he writes for The Conversation, about the local MP Jo Cox who was tragically killed in Birstall, Leeds. He talks...
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Brexit: UK targets ‘bespoke’ deal with EU to protect City
Economist Kevin Rowles comments on the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s aim to achieve a “bespoke” deal with the EU to protect the City of London after Brexit. ‘Bespoke’ deal for the City of London....
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt sorry as A&Es struggle to cope
Professor of Health Policy Peter Bradshaw comments on the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt having to apologise as A&Es nationally struggle to cope. “It is with debilitating repetition that our news...
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