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The College of Law becomes UK’s first for-profit university
The College of Law has recently been granted a university title It will now be known as the University of Law. As a result of the takeover, the institution will become the UK’s first for-profit...
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Workplace relationship organisation launched
An innovative new membership organisation has been created. The aim is to promote and improve employee and workplace relations in the UK. The Employee Relations Institute has the backing of trade...
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Pension concerns bigger fear than talent
Ensuring benefits packages are valued and motivating has become a greater concern for reward professionals than attracting and retaining staff. According the CIPD’s latest Reward Risk survey attracting...
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All they want for Christmas is… sales
UK retailers fear that Christmas shoppers are leaving it late Data from the British Retail Consortium and KPMG gives a bleak midwinter picture – sales are up just 0.4% compared to last year… and...
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Predictions 2013: UK Public Sector
How UNIT4 is meeting the needs of the changing public sector landscape Recently I came across this article in TechMarketView. I was struck by how well UNIT4 was aligned to the predictions and wanted to...
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Where will you get your digital skills from in 2013?
A report released earlier in the year by O2 claimed that the untapped digital skills of the young unemployed were valued at £6.7billion by UK businesses. This represents both a massive waste of skills...
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Working hard or hardly working? The real cost of time wasting
A recent CFO.com article claimed that the financial cost of workplace inactivity to US firms is as much as $130bn. Currently, no such calculations are available for the UK but it would be reasonable to...
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More women at the top!
Large firms are narrowing the gap with SMEs in terms of the number of companies that have a female director. According to a new study (by Experian) of directors in more than 2.7 million businesses the...
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Report reveals nation’s ‘share and share dislike’
British workers prefer to share gossip than personal items such as gadgets or food with the biggest gripe being borrowed coffee mugs. The Vodafone/YouGov survey revealed that while small treats were...
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Why the UK Government’s shared services focus is so welcome!
UK Government I was very excited to hear the Government’s chief operating officer Stephen Kelly reaffirm a strong commitment to shared services in his recent statement (reported in Kable – subscription...
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