The UK Government is planning to introduce a deposit return scheme for single-use drink containers including plastic, glass or metal, to increase recycling rates and reduce plastic pollution. The scheme, which is subject to consultation, ...
Saltwater Brewery, a micro-brewery with tasting room, has announced a partnership with Florida Distributing Company (FDC) and J.J. Taylor Companies, Inc. (J.J. Taylor), expanding distribution to Tampa, Orlando and the surrounding areas, as ...
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The Toll Group (Toll) has announced a range of transactions to “drive improved returns for shareholders and rationalise its portfolio of businesses”. The actions announced today by Toll include: Earning more money off its ...
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Plans to turn the Government estate as well as factories, supermarkets and car parks into “solar hubs” have been outlined in a new strategy by Greg Barker today (4th April 2014). The Solar Strategy, the first of its kind in ...
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Rio Tinto will move to suspend alumina production at Gove and focus on its bauxite operations after determining the refinery is no longer a viable business in the current market environment. Rio Tinto will now work on the scope and phased ...
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Rio Tinto said on Tuesday that the company is evaluating the prospects of its Australian Gove alumina refinery losses. It ever shelved the fuel source produce into natural gas plans, due to deteriorating market conditions. Rio Tinto ...
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The BBC is launching a new initiative that aims to "bring digital technology and computer coding to even more homes, businesses and schools" over the coming years, in a bid to plug the UK's digital skills gap. Government and industry are ...
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Skills body e-skills UK and the Cyber Security Challenge have joined forces to launch separate programmes that complement each other, in a bid to make the cyber security profession more appealing to secondary school students. The Cyber ...
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Mass-produced 3D printer, the Makerbot Digitizer, has gone on pre-order sale today, its $1,400 (£900) price tag making it an accessible early model for the home or office user. While it reportedly takes 12 minutes to successfully ...
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The UK's GCSE results came out this week and, on the whole, it's been positive news for the IT industry, with a 38 per cent year-on-year rise in students aged 14-16 taking the ICT exam - 73,847 exams sat this year compared to 53,197 last ...
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With A-level results appearing up and down the country, the JCQ (Joint Council for Qualifications) has released its reports on attainment, as well as numbers of pupils entering for examinations, with ICT once again falling outside the top ...
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The Department for Education's (DfE) new English National Curriculum framework is "too focused on the development side of computing", Joanna Poplawska of The Corporate IT Forum's Education and Skills Commission has told Computing. While ...
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One in 10 computers in secondary schools will be a tablet by the end of 2013, according to research carried out by the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA). It is estimated that there are now 141,000 tablets in UK secondary ...
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Technology firms including Facebook and Microsoft have welcomed government plans to provide funding for improving the teaching of computer science in schools. Education minister Elizabeth Truss announced £2m will be set aside to ...
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The government has launched a "technical baccalaureate" designed to represent a "mark of achievement" for school-leavers to show employers. Announced by education secretary Michael Gove and skills minister Matthew Hancock, the ...
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