Public Sector

Graduates face paying thousands more for degrees under proposals published today – and Business Secretary Vince Cable tells Gary Gibbon many courses will cease to receive government subsidies.

A clash is looming between the government and unions over plans to reform public sector pensions. Report author Lord Hutton tells Channel 4 News: “There is change coming”.

As public sector workers are told their pension arrangements will be changing, Channel 4 News asks one expert the important questions.

Watch Channel 4 News’ report from the San Jose mine in Chile, where 33 miners are trapped, and an interview with Oliver Stone about his new film, Money Never Sleeps.

As the government confirms plans to push through fundamental welfare reform, spending cuts will dominate the Conservative conference, which opens today.

Cutting public spending would prolong the recession and lead to unemployment soaring to four million, the country’s most senior union leaders have warned.

The governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, blames bankers, policy makers and the Labour government for the financial crisis, writes Channel 4 News economics editor Faisal Islam.

A police chief warns that the police service must be kept strong to cope with rising social and industrial tensions as the coalition government carries out its austerity policies and spending cuts.

Britain’s trade unions are gathering in Manchester today for the annual TUC congress with the threat of the biggest mass strikes by public sector workers since the poll tax riots of 1990.

Exclusive: Probation Service chiefs in England and Wales have issued a clear warning, in a Channel 4 News survey, over their capacity to protect the public if the government goes ahead with plans.

George Osborne’s emergency budget kick-started the government’s plans to cut the deficit. Was he VATman, public spending slasher, or responsible chancellor, asked political editor Gary Gibbon.

Changing Britain: two days before a budget that will be the opening shot of this year’s general election campaign, Jon Snow visits Hull to assess what impact the recession has had on voters.