Almost 1 in 4 of trade union members are employed in education. According to the ONS 1.47 million of a total union membership of 6.2 million are now drawn from this sector. With almost half (47.7%) of all employees belonging to a trade union, the education has probably become the most organised. (In manufacturing, union density […]
Recently released data from the polling organisation YouGov shows the extent of young people’s willingness to back Labour in the recent General Election, with the party enjoying over three times as much support from 18-24-year-old voters as the Conservatives – amongst 18 and 19 year olds, support was even stronger with 66% opting for Labour compared […]
Pricewaterhouse Cooper (PwC) the global professional services firm has entered the debate about the effects of artificial intelligence and robotics on employment. Calculating that 30% of jobs (some 10 million) are at high risk, its predictions are about midway between those of Oxford academics Frey & Osborne’s 2013 prediction of 47% and OECD’s 2016 10%. […]
Latest figures from the ONS, show the employment rate (the proportion of people aged from 16 to 64 who were in work) at 74.6%, the joint highest since records began in 1971. The unemployment rate has also fallen to 4.7%, down from 5.1% for a year earlier. It has not been lower since June to […]
Chancellor Philip Hammond’s ‘Brexit budget’ has confirmed the UK government is to go ahead – and spend £500 million on the new ‘college based’ technical education pathway – now to be referred to as T-levels. Based on proposals in last summer’s Sainsbury Review and the Cameron government’s […]
