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Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce

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Name: Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Schools 'should work together to help disadvantaged pupils'

Schools could share their pupil premiums and work together to close the achievement gap, the Royal Society of Arts has suggested. No school an island, published today, looked specifically at how Suffolk's poor education record could be transformed, but ... [Published Public Finance Magazine - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Ma..., Education, Matthew Taylor, Replication

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Manufacturing

Workforce must have worldclass skills

OVER the past 20 years or so, as the pace of globalisation has hotted up and we've seen the emergence of countries such as China, India and other lower-cost manufacturing nations with whom it's very difficult to compete on price, we've seen some manufacturing ... [Published Nottingham Post - May 21 2013]

Entities: Manufacturing, United Kingdom, Japan Earthquake & Tsunami, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Ma...

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

University of Strathclyde

Dr Tom Johnston

CEO and chairman of Barr & Stroud and treasurer of Strathclyde University;Born: June 27, 1927; Died: March 22, 2013.Tom Johnston, who has died aged 86, was the CEO and chairman of Barr & Stroud who became the treasurer of the University of Strathclyde, ... [Published Herald Scotland - May 21 2013]

Entities: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, The Institute of Electrical Engineers, Thales Optronics

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Friends of the Earth

Defra cuts climate change team from 38 to six

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has cut the number of staff in its climate change adaptation team from 38 to six.A freedom of information request by Friends of the Earth revealed the drastic cutback in staffing numbers.In ... [Published Utility Week - May 20 2013]

Entities: UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural A..., Global Warming/Climate Change, John Ashton, Adaptation, Friends of the Earth

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UK's climate change adaptation team cut from 38 officials to just six

Former senior official John Ashton attacks government for 'spooking potential investors' in energy infrastructure The number of people employed by the government to work on the UK's adaptation to the effects of climate change has been cut from 38 officials ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 17 2013]

Entities: John Ashton, Global Warming/Climate Change, Adaptation, UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural A...

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce

Wide-ranging Labour critique of workplace pensions targets contract, transparency and regulators

InIn a paper for the Fabian Society, Labour pensions shadow Gregg McClymont MP and his senior parliamentary assistant Andy Tarrant argue contract-based pension schemes contain an inherent conflict of interest between delivering for savers and meeting ... [Published Money Marketing Online - May 15 2013]

Entities: Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Ma..., Fabian Society, Annuities

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Chalk Talk: A cheering legacy of the summer of contentment

The Olympic legacy means different things to different people, as we could see from the article on these pages earlier this month about the school that inherited the athletes' dining hall to use in place of its burnt-out arts block, . Another possible ... [Published The Independent - May 15 2013]

Entities: Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Ma..., John Cridland, Matthew Taylor

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Is the academies programme working?

Problems with the academies programme raise profound questions about its effectiveness, equity and sustainability Confusion over who is responsible for what, lack of serious evaluation, inadequate local and national accountability, perverse incentives, ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 13 2013]

Entities: Malcolm Trobe, Ferdinand Mount, Public Accounts Committee, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Ma...

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Fond farewell for Slough Grammar pupils

The year 13 class of 2013 bid farewell to Slough Grammar School on Thursday.Principal Mercedes Hernández Estrada and head of sixth form Lisa Healy spoke of their fond memories of the year group who started in 2006 at the Lascelles Road school.Mrs Hernández ... [Published Slough Express - May 13 2013]

Entities: Slough Grammar School, Slough, GCSE, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Ma..., SEGRO plc

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Suffolk: Deputy leader Lisa Chambers to take charge of education

Lisa Chambers SUFFOLK?S determination to put school improvement at the top of the county?s political agenda has been shown by new deputy leader Lisa Chambers becoming its education spokeswoman.Mrs Chambers will take over as cabinet member for schools, ... [Published East Anglian Daily Times - May 11 2013]

Entities: Education, Sue Cook, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Ma...

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Biblical? Conservative? You can't paint that!

Rembrandt's actual "The Return of the Prodigal Son"“I must study politics and war, that my sons may study mathematics and philosophy … in order to give their children the right to study painting, poetry, music and architecture.”John Q. Adams said this, ... [Published WorldNetDaily - May 10 2013]

Entities: John Adams, Hafiz Khan, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Ma...

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 2 reports

Portsmouth Cathedral's business scheme to expand nationwide

Three of the first investors in the new community share scheme is attached. It shows (l to r) Fareham MP Mark Hoban, Minister of State for Employment; Baroness Elizabeth Berridge; the dean of Portsmouth Cathedral, the Very Reverend David Brindley, at ... [Published Christian Today - May 02 2013]

Entities: Elizabeth Berridge, Mark Hoban, Invention

Quotes

...He was ever willing to share the wisdom he had gained from his long and distinguished career in business. "Always aim to throw away more paperwork than you keep at the end of each day" was one of many wise pieces of advice

Dr Tom Johnston [Published Herald Scotland - May 21 2013]

Friends of the Earth executive director, Andy Atkins, said: "After a year that has already brought flooding and other extreme weather to the UK, it's shocking that the department responsible for protecting us against the effects of climate change is to pare its staff to the bone."

Defra cuts climate change team from 38 to six [Published Utility Week - May 20 2013]

He said the UK could not move out of recession without looking to green industries. "The government may think it has a growth story. Nobody else does. If it would stop looking at low-carbon growth in the way the Spanish inquisition looked at heretics, it could find one in front of its nose. The economy as a whole bumps along the bottom. The low-carbon economy keeps growing at nearly 4% [a year]" he said

UK's climate change adaptation team cut from 38 officials to just six [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 17 2013]

The dangers are obvious. As Mount says of recent developments: "Diktats were delivered in a capricious but demanding style, half thought through, but ungainsayable. The system became both more centralised and more chaotic." This is the position we have reached over the academies programme as the recent reports have shown

Is the academies programme working? [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 13 2013]

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