Lacklustre data and fears over Greece hurt US August 22, 2012 THE S&P 500 erased earlier losses to close flat yesterday after minutes from the latest Federal Reserve meeting indicated the central bank might be ready for another round of stimulus. Minutes from the 31 July to 1 August meeting suggested the Fed is likely to deliver another round of monetary stimulus “fairly soon” unless the [...]
Rigour in GCSEs is essential but we also need students fit for business August 22, 2012 WHILE youngsters celebrating exam successes today should be applauded for their hard work, many will be in for a rude awakening when they go into the world of work. Unfortunately, they will find that the traditional link between academic results and achievement in the workplace no longer holds as true as it once did. Our [...]
Romney risks being thrown off course by his blundering fellow Republican August 22, 2012 BEFORE primaries became the more common mechanism of selecting party nominees, the Republican National Convention served as the venue for delegates to wage their famous intra-party battles. Teddy Roosevelt stormed out in 1912 to form the Progressive Party, the moderate Dwight Eisenhower trumped the conservative Robert Taft in 1952, an ideological battle that Barry Goldwater [...]
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 [...]
