Posts Tagged ‘confidence’
Labour MPs call Blair to go, Tories call Howard to stay: what are things coming to?
BBC NEWS | Election 2005 | Election 2005 | Labour MPs call on Blair to quit Do you want to know who really won out of this election? British politics is hard to fathom, even for the people inside it. There's bluff and counter-bluff, double-bluff and counter-double-bluff, and that's just the stuff that beginners do. Labour was all for [...]
Who killed MG Rover? “I” said Patricia Hewitt
Tonight's events have been absolutely extraordinary. Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt announced that MG Rover had called in the receivers, and that 6,000 jobs were on the line. This is bizarre enough. The government does not announce that a privately run business has called in the receivers, the business does it itself. But it's [...]
Employers, government and educationalists need to decide what degrees are for
See: BBC NEWS | Education | Degree grades 'in need of update' In the early 80's, most people who went to university and got an honours degree got a 2:2. In 2003, most got a 2:1 or a first. This is good news for the government, perhaps neutral for educationalists, and bad news for employers. As an employer, I want to distinguish between job [...]
