A new report has found that black students are 30 percent less likely to be employed than their white peers in Britain, raising concerns that blacks are being discriminated against in the UK.
04/25/2012
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Tags: job, UK
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The UK is lagging behind other countries such as Lithuania and Sweden in the deployment of super-fast fibre deployment according to the fibre-to-the-home council.
The European Union’s tax chief on Thursday rejected UK opposition to a planned levy on financial transactions, saying it would dampen risky trading and barely dent growth.
University applications from UK students for the first year of higher tuition fees are down by 8,7%, according to figures from the admissions service.
Vitamin D supplements are recommended for those people at risk of deficiency, including all pregnant and breastfeeding women, children under five, and the elderly, but 74 per cent of parents know nothing about them and more than half of healthcare professionals are also unaware, the BBC said.
The last decade has seen a sharp fall in the UK’s share of the global market in clinical trials losing out to China, Brazil and eastern Europe. But it looks like Scotland is bucking the trend and attracting big pharma back to Britain.
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Skilled migrants from outside Europe are to be banned from having a further 70,000 jobs, including as vets and orchestral musicians, under the latest revision of Britain’s shortage occupation list, published on Monday.
08/30/2011
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Tags: non-EU migrants, rules, UK
The number of people living in the UK rose by 409,000 last year — almost a third of the increase across all 27 EU countries, according to figures from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office.
