Students waiting for their GCSE results this week have seen the most “dramatic” changes to their prospects than any other secondary school year group for 70 years, according to a report.
Jackie Long
As hundreds of thousands of students receive their A-level results, Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long blogs on how the world that students will be entering has changed in the last few decades.
Unemployment falls by 46,000 between April and June to 2.56 million, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Much of the fall was recorded in London, suggesting an Olympics boost.
As latest government figures show a drop in the number of people without work – despite the recession – Channel 4 News speaks to one of the economists who are scratching their heads to explain why.
As comments from Treasury Minister David Gauke about tax dodging draw a barrage of criticism, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg tells Channel 4 News he ‘may’ have paid in cash, but not to avoid tax.
Worries that Greece may soon be bankrupt and Spain will need a full-scale bailout send the euro sliding and Spanish bond yields soaring to a euro-record high of 7.52 per cent.
Colorado police are still grappling with possible motives as to why James Eagan Holmes, a middle-class 24-year-old neuroscience student, may have killed 12 cinema-goers watching a Batman film.
Jackie Long
Jackie Long meets the Remploy employees out on strike over plans to shut 27 of the company’s 54 factories.
“We’ve got a big job to do in getting this economy back on its feet,” — Osborne.
Unemployment falls by 65,000 between March and May to 2.58 million but the number of people claiming jobseeker’s allowance last month increases by 6,100.
As unemployment falls for the fourth month in a row, Channel 4 News looks behind the figures and finds a mixed picture.
The UK economic forecast is cut and the global recovery shows further signs of weakness, the International Monetary Fund said in its World Economic Outlook today.
Married cousins who forced destitute men into slavery at a travellers’ camp near Bedfordshire are jailed for 11 years and four years respectively.
Channel 4 News is looking for young people entering the jobs market this summer, and people from the generation above who got their first job in 1978, to take part in a film about the Class of 2012.
The smiles are strained and the body language stiff but Conservative David Cameron insists he has much in common with Francois Hollande – the Socialist he refused to meet during France’s elections.