The festive season has lost some of its sparkle for retailers,with growth in sales on the high street slowing in December,the CBI said. Responding to the CBI's latest monthly Distributive Trades Survey during the first two weeks of ...
Tags: Clothing Sales, Grow, slow
The European Commission (EC) wants to impose pension changes that would cost UK businesses £350bn (eURO440bn) and 180,000 jobs, according to research commissioned by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Describing the ...
Tags: EC's Pension Proposals, Health, UK Business
The UK government has injected a second round of cash into its pound 25m Higher Apprenticeship Fund. The funding aims to develop 4,230 new Higher Apprenticeships in sectors including low-carbon engineering, space engineering, legal ...
Express News Service reported that a team of 20 CBI sleuths inspected 15 mining firms located in Sandur and Hospet taluk on December 6th as part of its probe into illegal extraction, transportation and export of over 0.50 million tonnes of ...
Tags: CBI, illegal extraction, iron ore
IT services provider Civica has secured multiple contracts with 22 UK schools to provide digital learning services. Implemented by Civica's education division, the learning environments use Civica's CloudBase learning platform and Virtual ...
Tags: IT, Civica, digital learning services, learning platform
PTI reported that 2 officials of a panel of the ministry of steel, along with a private firm and its director have been ordered by a Delhi court to be put on trial on cheating, forgery and corruption charges in a coal block allocation case. ...
Tags: Jpc Official, Coal Block, Praka, steel
DNA reported that the Central Bureau of Investigation special court has issued summons to former chief minister Mr BS Yeddyurappa and 12 others for allegedly favoring mining companies and accepting kickbacks. In its charge sheet filed in ...
Tags: Central Bureau of Investigation, iron ore mining mess, iron, Indian news
DNA reported that Mr SV Ranganath chief secretary of Bangalore has ordered a re examination of the report filed by Mr Dipak Sarmah principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife), in which the rich iron ore deposits located in Karnataka ...
Tags: Indian Iron Ore, Iron Ore, Indian iron, deposit
More specialist teachers in science and computer science are needed for primary school children,a report from CBI has called for today. The First Steps:A new approach for our schools report is being launched at the CBI Annual Conference ...
Tags: CBI reports, computer science teaching reforms, UK education system
Britain's food and drink manufacturers are bracing themselves for difficult Christmas trading,according to the Food and Drink Federation(FDF). Speaking after the FDF's latest business confidence survey,FDF's economic and commercial ...
Tags: Business confidence, Business Leaders Forum, FDF, CBI
The Confederation of British Industry(CBI)has highlighted food manufacturing and agriculture as one of seven key"champion sectors"for growth,urging the government to develop a"coherent industrial strategy to boost exports". Agri-food ...
The University of Edinburgh played host to the second annual UKESF Summer Workshop, a joint industry-university engineering business skills initiative. Companies taking part included ARM, Dialog Semiconductor, Jaguar Land Rover, Linn and ...
Tags: UK Skills, Scotland, Summer Workshop
The number of A-level students achieving at least an A or A* grade has seen the biggest dip in two decades, official figures revealed today. An estimated 335,000 A-level students have received their results, with 26.6% being awarded A or ...
Tags: A-level students, Joint Council for Qualifications, JCQ, UCAS
Ireland has fined UBS AG's life insurance subsidiary for violating a regulation of 2010, intending to prevent money laundering law and the financing of terrorism. The Central Bank of Ireland fined EUR65,000 and alleged that UBS had not ...
Tags: UBS AG, financing of terrorism, effective implementation