Plastic apprenticeships and jobs-hogging
It’s less of a jobs market, more of a jobs battlefield for Channel 4’s Class of 2012. Faisal Islam takes 10 insights from an event bringing job seekers, CEOs and politicians together.
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Tata Steel cuts 1,000 jobs in Port Talbot, Llanwern and other plants, as the government is accused of failing to support the crisis-hit industry.
Fracking could reduce house prices, increase traffic, noise and damage the landscape in rural communities, according to a government report which has now been published in full.
Britain is “deeply elitist” and top roles in society are dominated by Oxbridge graduates, according to a report.
A third of 22 to 30-year-olds who leave home move to London. But with the capital creating 80 per cent of private sector jobs, who can blame them? Channel 4 News hears from young people on the move.
UK teenagers are failing to keep up with youngsters in many Asian countries in reading, maths and science, according to a new OECD survey. Where has British education gone wrong?
British architect Garry Thomas visited Iwaki, near the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, recently. He found a place barely reconstructed, and residents losing hope.
Channel 4 News comes to you for a week of pop-up shows, travelling from Cornwall to Edinburgh to see how real the economic recovery really is. Today we’re in Edinburgh!
Around 2,500 jobs are saved at retailer HMV after restructuring firm Hilco buys 141 stores, including 25 that were due to close.
Women in the UK are less likely to be in work, experience lower job security and greater pay inequality than their counterparts in other developed countries, according to a new study.
Despite the weak economy, employment is holding up – but earnings and productivity are falling, according to a leading think tank.
The Royal College of Nursing says the NHS is “sleepwalking into a nursing crisis” as it predicts that more than 30,000 NHS jobs are at risk of being cut.
Further members of staff could be following former director-general George Entwistle out of the doors of the BBC in the wake of the Newsnight scandal, BBC Trust Chairman Lord Patten says.
The government is paying too much money, too easily, on apprenticeship schemes, leading to “excessive” profits being made at the public’s expense, according to a new report.
Over £1bn is made available to help create and safeguard jobs in England. But can the regional growth fund spend the money, confound its critics, and overcome a history of bureaucratic delays?
It’s less of a jobs market, more of a jobs battlefield for Channel 4’s Class of 2012. Faisal Islam takes 10 insights from an event bringing job seekers, CEOs and politicians together.