Companies must work with the UK’s tech-savvy NEETs August 22, 2012 YET again, figures from the Department for Education show a rise in the number of young people not in education, employment or training (NEETs). But conversely, new research this week reveals that the unused digital skills sitting within the community of over 1m unemployed young people are valued at £6.7bn by UK businesses. The same [...]
After the UK government deficit rose in July, do we need to make further spending cuts? August 22, 2012 YES Richard Wellings The government has behaved recklessly. Assuming a strong recovery, with high growth and rising tax revenues, it gambled that relatively modest spending cuts would be enough to fulfil the deficit reduction plan. The latest borrowing figures betray the magnitude of this miscalculation. It seems likely that the deficit will remain dangerously high, [...]
Rapid Responses August 22, 2012 Football antics [Re: An Olympian defends football stars – at least off the pitch, yesterday] My interest in football has declined over the years, as I’ve been forced to watch almost daily nonsense from overpaid footballers and their yobbish behaviour. Please don’t make excuses for these bad examples. It’s disgraceful. Team GB demonstrated a commendable [...]
Think twice before taking your MBA in Asia August 22, 2012 EMERGING markets in Asia are churning out MBA graduates in record numbers, and they’re as qualified as they are numerous. TopMBA.com, which measures how companies perceive business schools, saw employer demand for graduates from Indian schools increase by 24 per cent in 2011. It isn’t an isolated trend – emerging market professionals are taking MBAs [...]
AW12: Get the looks August 22, 2012 By Albany Bell FULL LEATHER The full leather look brings a sleek sexiness to this autumn season. Hakaan shows us how to wear it with a peplum tailored burgundy waistcoat being layered over an elegant leather pencil skirt. Zips, laser-cut and chiffon detailing add extra interest, whilst khaki and maroon tones move away from the [...]
Let the games commence! August 22, 2012 1. FIFA 13 Release date: 28 September Platform: PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U EA knows what it is doing with Fifa. It’s gone from being sluggish and cartoony to a bafflingly complex, photo-realistic football sim. Post a screenshot from the latest version online and you’d have to look closely to distinguish it from real life. [...]
Why tablets, like me, are finished August 22, 2012 Last night I dreamt the tablet was dead. The entire industry – the jobs, the billions of dollars spent on R&D, the network of subsidiary industries that suckle from its teat like a litter of helpless electronic piglets – was rendered instantly, completely, hopelessly obsolete. Microsoft had abandoned the Surface (its tablet, rather than the [...]
Disgraced tycoon Nadir faces jail after 17 years on run August 22, 2012 Turkish Cypriot tycoon Asil Nadir, who jumped bail in 1993, was finally convicted in a British court today of plundering millions from his old company to buy antiques, race horses and country houses. Nadir, who transformed the small textile company Polly Peck into one of the top British stocks of the 1980s, returned to Britain [...]
FSA calls for curbs on exotic collective investment schemes August 22, 2012 The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has widened its crackdown on unregulated investments in unusual assets such as crops and fine wines, saying they should not be promoted to retail investors as compensation for mis-selling may not be available. The FSA published proposals today to ban financial advisors from recommending so-called Unregulated Collective Investment Schemes (UCIS) [...]
Carillion sees rising public sector demand August 22, 2012 Support services and construction firm Carillion said major public sector customers in areas like defence and health had not been put off outsourcing workers by the G4S Olympic security debacle, which sparked criticism by politicians. The growing trend of private firms running budget-squeezed public services was thrown into the spotlight in July when the world’s [...]
