Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has criticised large employers advocating for a shift in apprentice levy funds, highlighting potential repercussions for young apprenticeships. Keegan’s remarks come amid lobbying efforts from major companies to utilise more of the £3.9 billion annual apprentice ...
With challenges such as cost-of-living pressures sitting high on the agenda for businesses in 2024, the Skills for Life campaign’s ‘Skills Horizon 2024 Barometer’, has found that 64% of SMEs in England are deploying lower-cost recruitment tactics to continue investing ...
Ministers are in last ditched negotiations with Alstom in a bid to prevent the closure of the iconic Derby train manufacturing facility, a move that could result in the loss of thousands of jobs across the industry. Alstom, the French ...
HONG KONG – After a pandemic-induced lull spanning more than three years, mainland Chinese are snapping up homes in Hong Kong, accounting for up to a third of new property sales weeks after the city removed all additional stamp duties on foreign ...
TOKYO – Japan welcomed 2.79 million visitors in February, a record for the month and the most for any month since the COVID-19 pandemic began, boosted by travel during Lunar New Year holidays. The number of foreign visitors for business and leisure ...
Bangladesh, Pakistan and India remain the world’s smoggiest countries in 2023, air quality data show
SINGAPORE — Pakistan remained one of the world’s three smoggiest countries in 2023, as Bangladesh and India replaced Chad and Iran, with particulate matter about 15 times the level recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), data published on Tuesday ...
SEOUL — The number of marriages in South Korea rose in 2023 for the first time in more than a decade, lifted by pent-up demand from couples delaying nuptials during the pandemic, but the data did not point to a ...
CAIRO/JERUSALEM/LONDON — Extreme food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already exceeded famine levels, and mass death is now imminent without an immediate ceasefire and surge of food to areas cut off by fighting, the global hunger monitor ...
HANOI – Vietnamese prosecutors called on Tuesday for the death penalty to be handed to Truong My Lan, the mastermind of the Southeast Asian nation’s largest financial fraud on record, state media said. Ms. Lan, the chairwoman of real estate developer Van ...
Leaders from the technology industry have issued an urgent warning for the government to increase regulation and investment in artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Speaking at last night’s Parliamentary AI and Fintech Summit, which was hosted by Dean Russell MP for ...