IVESCSchool holiday prices set to fall

Time: 2005-11-15 08:49:34

November 15, 2005(Educators) Ministers have announced plans to offer cheaper travel deals to families taking breaks in school holidays in an attempt to improve attendance.The deal was designed to reduce the incentives for parents to take their children on holi...

IVESC:Vocational Training Helps Industrialization

Time: 2005-10-22 09:49:04

October 22. 2005(Educators)Vocational training has played an important role in the development of the national economics of many industrialized nations.Nevertheless, circumstances change rapidly in market economies heading for the knowledge society of the futu...

IVESC Retiring? You're late!

Time: 2005-09-08 08:49:18

September 8, 2005(Educators)THE golden age of retirement is over - leaving the middle classes to face having to save more and work longer, experts said.The best year to retire was 2000 when a 'golden generation' of both middle and lower earners got rel...

IVESC Private education will cost £130,000

Time: 2005-08-27 08:48:59

August 27, 2005(Educators)PARENTS are being saddled with an ever-increasing financial burden to ensure their children receive a good education, a report says.The rising cost of public school fees and spiraling student debts are placing 'unprecedented finan...

IVESC Bosses warned of stress 'time bomb'

Time: 2005-08-26 08:48:42

August 26, 2005(Educators)Firms do not know how to deal with their stressed-out workforce and are sitting on a "ticking time bomb", according to a survey published today.Just over half of human resources (HR) managers know what the company is legally...

IVESCClass warfare and education

Time: 2005-05-31 08:48:27

May 31, 2005(Educators) Our education system has been in a state of almost perpetual revolution under New Labor. The introduction of the useless A/S-level... easier modular assessments... and, arguably most damaging, imposing targets on universities to broaden...

IVESCNow your boss has to tell all

Time: 2005-02-24 08:48:10

February 24, 2005(Educators)TIME is fast running out for bosses who like to keep their staff in the dark over management decision-making.New laws aimed at improving workplace communication will take effect in April.The information and consultation regulations ...

IVESCIn focus: The Asia Flood Disaster

Time: 2005-01-02 08:47:47

January 02, 2005(Educators)The tsunami which devastated huge swathes of Southeast Asia and claimed casualties as far away as Somalia in Africa, was one of the worst natural disasters in living memory.At least 139,580 people are reported to be dead and the UN h...

IVESCEarly retirement to be outlawed

Time: 2004-12-15 08:47:24

December 15, 2004(Educators) LEGISLATION designed to outlaw fixed retirement ages will mean most people will work at least until they are 65. Ministers announced today that a fixed retirement age will be 'consigned to the past', but added it will bring...

IVESCTight deadlines raise heart attack risk

Time: 2004-12-14 08:46:59

December 14, 2004(Educators) High-pressure work deadlines can cause a six-fold increase in the risk of suffering a heart attack in the following 24 hours, a study suggests.The researchers said that short-term but intense pressure seemed to have a greater impac...