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...

IVESC Bush Revives Bid to Legalize Illegal Aliens; Stalled Plan Would Help Millions Who Broke Law

Time: 2004-11-10 08:46:41

November 10, 2004(Educators) President Bush yesterday moved aggressively to resurrect his plan to relax rules against illegal immigration, a move bound to anger conservatives just days after they helped re-elect him.The president met privately in the Oval...

IVESC Flawed obsession with exam reform

Time: 2004-10-19 08:46:24

October 19, 2004(Educators)So begins yet another attempt to reform Britain's secondary education - imposed on a school system reeling from the perpetual changes forced on it bymeddlesome bureaucrats and politicians.Since New Labour came to power, our exam ...

IVESC Education and a question of trust

Time: 2004-10-01 08:45:51

October 01, 2004(Educators)From a government that has debased the gold standard of A-level and dumbed down the GCSE while peddling the fantasy of greater and greater educational achievement comes what seems - at last - an acknowledgment of the real world.At fi...