Monthly Archive: October 2011

Oct 31

Staffordshire University fast-track students share industry Top Performer of the Year Award

Two Staffordshire University fast-track students have won a prestigious industry award. Andrew Don and Steven Tams both scooped the Hays Accountancy and Finance Top Performer of the Year Award, after completing a two-year fast-track degree in Accounting and Finance at Staffordshire University’s Business School. With little to separate their first class honours success, it was …

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Oct 31

Stoke-on-Trent Unemployment

Constituency Region Male % Women, % TOTAL % rate TOTAL, % change on yr Stoke-on-Trent Central West Mids 7.9 3.5 3,031 5.7 7.9 Stoke-on-Trent North West Mids 6.6 3.2 2,950 4.9 5.9 Stoke-on-Trent South West Mids 5.6 2.7 2,329 4.1 9.3

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Oct 31

PFI=ROBBERY

As the North Staffs University Hospital opens its door to its new PFI hospital, is PFI just a license to print money to the private sector at the expense of the tax payer and public services? Is this the most effective way to spend scarce resources to provide essential public service leaving future generation far …

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Oct 31

Are the Police Listening to Your Calls?

Today’s report in the Guardian about the Metropolitan police’s mobile phone surveillance technology is a chilling reminder of the way the law follows, rather than leads technology use. Report: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/30/metropolitan-police-mobile-phone-surveillance The technology could give police the ability to conduct “blanket and indiscriminate” monitoring.  In particular, whether the use of a ‘spoof’ mobile phone network by the police counts …

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Oct 31

Potteries Museum Cafe Under Threat

The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Cafe could be closed down or out-sourced to a private company Stoke-on-Trent City council has revealed as it begins drawing up plans to save up to £25 million in 2012/13. The Cafe is expected to make a loss of £61,000 in 2011/12. It comes as the museum continues to …

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Oct 31

Councils are told to speed up adoptions

Children waiting to be adopted spend far too long in foster care and the councils that are the worst performing will be highlighted and could even have their services taken over, David Cameron is expected to say. He is also expected to announce that the government is looking to tackle unnecessary delays in the court …

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Oct 30

Far from being ‘all in it together’ pay for Britain’s top directors shows they aren’t even on the same planet.

Pay for directors of the UK’s top companies has risen by 49% according to a report complied by Incomes Data Services (IDS). The average pay package for a director of a FTSE 100 company now stands at £2.7 million, this takes into account salary, benefits and bonuses and the rise is higher than that given …

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