Prime minister David Cameron has outlined how the government will roll out nine new degree apprenticeships designed by industry, including key areas such as chartered surveying, aerospace engineering, and nuclear.
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Numerous politicians continue to warn the UK that 3m jobs are linked to our EU membership. should be publicly challenged over misuse of this assertion. A new report from the Institute of Economic Affairs, however, suggested that the claim should be publicly challenged.
Global money transfer firm World First has introduced what it calls “the world’s first international payments app for a wearable device.”
Sexual health brand Durex has introduced a new smartphone solution that is designed to connect couples in the bedroom and improve sex lives globally – boosting product sales in the process.
Alternatives to bank overdrafts for SMEs are continuing to grow after the launch of Secure Trust Bank's asset finance division aimed at smaller and medium-sized companies.
It’s tempting to write that growing businesses should ‘wake up and smell the coffee’ when it comes to fully realising the link between ethical and sustainable policies and booming sales. Tempting because sourcing and supplying ethical brews to businesses around the UK has been the bedrock that will see an increase of turnover of 35 per cent this year to £900,000 by Cheltenham-based the Office Coffee Company.
The Stanford Graduate School of Business has embarked on its first UK-teaching initiative, Stanford-Ignite London, which will search for talented British innovators across science, technology, engineering and mathematics sectors.
Despite making up just 0.5 per cent of UK businesses, medium-sized businesses (MSBs) account for a fifth of employment and 25 per cent of UK turnover. In 2013 it was believed that a disturbing gap in export finance was shackling the international ambitions of MSBs and could damage the UK economy’s long-term prospects. This pattern seems to have shifted.
The distinction between tax avoidance and tax evasion used to be clear, but the shifting sands of public opinion have changed that. Does everyone take part in tax avoidance?
From 5 April, Shared Parental Leave will be available to eligible parents. In the fourth of our five-part employment law series, we examine what the benefits to employees will be and what it will cost employers
