IoD chair resigns after less than two years in the role August 18, 2020 The chair of business advocacy group the Institute of Directors (IoD) has resigned after less than two years in the role. Charlotte Valeur took the job after its former chair Barbara Judge quit after a row over alleged racism, sexism and bullying. However, Valeur has now resigned less than two years into her three year [...]
Greece and Croatia could be next on UK quarantine list August 17, 2020 Popular holiday destinations Greece and Croatia may be the next two countries on the UK’s travel quarantine list, after increasing rates of coronavirus. Croatia has now passed the 20 cases per 100,000 threshold that the government has used as a benchmark as to whether a country has a high Covid-19 infection rate. Greece saw its [...]
Parents and students set for court battle over A-level results August 16, 2020 Angry parents and students are preparing to take legal action to appeal A-level results awarded under the emergency coronavirus marking system. Many students saw their expected results downgraded by the government’s system last week, particularly in lower socio-economic areas. For example, there have been many examples of students from poorer backgrounds having expected A* or [...]
Why artificial intelligence needs an open, decentralised platform to serve the world August 14, 2020 | Sponsored On the 15th of May 1911, the US government moved to break the Standard Oil Corporation into what would eventually be 34 different companies. The key resource at question then was oil. A century later, we are at the cusp of wondering whether the organisations of our time hold a similar monopoly on the most [...]
Decentralized Finance in commodities markets August 14, 2020 | Sponsored Decentralised Finance (DeFi) is a term used to refer to innovations in capital markets that rely on blockchains. Instead of using conventional financial rails such as banks or credit transfer APIs, DeFi based projects work entirely on blockchains without the requirement of central clearing houses or banking personnel checking transactions. This makes it possible for [...]
REC: Post-lockdown record rise in vacancies hints at UK jobs recovery August 14, 2020 More new vacancies for UK jobs were advertised last week than at any other time since the lockdown began, a new report has found. Around 126,000 new UK-based jobs were posted in the week 3-9 August, according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). It brought the total number of vacancies across the UK to [...]
Raise sick pay and extend furlough, Royal Society urges government August 14, 2020 Statutory sick pay should be increased and the furlough scheme extended, according to a new report by the Royal Society. The research has suggested it would be the best trade-off between public health and economic risk moving forward. It argues that health and economic data should be combined to produce the best economic outcome at [...]