The public sector is predicted to lose a further 144,000 jobs in a bid to achieve savings of £5 billion, chancellor George Osborne announced in the Government’s spending review yesterday.
One of the biggest news stories of 2012 came in October courtesy of a television expose on the activities of a famous 1970s light entertainer. Stories around the TV figure’s “darker side” have since...
HR magazine unveils the 2012 HR Most Influential ranking at a prestigious event at Claridge’s Hotel tonight.
For companies in the IT sector – and across all sectors with a significant number of IT workers – apprenticeships are moving rapidly from nice-to-have to must-have.
The latest Labour Market Statistics report from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), published yesterday, brought rare good news on employment, perhaps attributable to a boost given by the Olympic...
Business secretary Vince Cable MP announced yesterday a blitz on “over 3,000 regulations to be scrapped or overhauled”, a further instalment in the Government’s drive to reduce red tape. Shops,...
Pearson, owner of Penguin and the Financial Times, is launching a higher education college - becoming the first FTSE 100 company to directly deliver degrees in the UK.
In a study of 1,000 UK consumers by customer service training firm, Results International, 47% of people said they think dentists have a good customer service attitude, compared with just 27% who...
I wonder if you were on the edge of your seat watching the Eurovision song contest this year, wondering if ‘the Hump’ would bring home the trophy for the UK this time?
The Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations, this month, allows HR professionals a chance to consider the advances in the workplace over the last 60 years.
If employers are not thinking multinationally to find where talent will thrive, they will have to do so – and hope it is not too late, delegates at the HR Forum on board the cruise ship Aurora...
Leaders need to develop beyond their personal ego and become radical, ethical and authentic if they are to succeed in the 21st century, according to a report published this week, based on research...
