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Women Are Not Getting A Fair Deal In The It Industry
New research by MORI for Cheltenham Ladies' College shows that women are not getting on as they should be in the IT industries. Of the IT companies included in the research on average a quarter (24%) of IT positions are held by women. This decreases to about one in eight (13%) of senior management positions.
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Report Card
Across the country as I write, schoolchildren are receiving the examination results that assess their performance over the last couple of years in each of the subjects. (Well, except in Scotland, but that is a different story.) It seems an appropriate point at which to draw up a similar report card for the government. In which policy areas does the public feel it has passed, and in which has it failed? Or rather, since "value added" seems to be the preferred benchmark these days, in which policy areas has it improved its standing since it was elected, and in which has it lost out? And, for those issues where the Opposition has scored hits, has the result merely been to damage Labour credibility or also to convince the electorate that the Conservatives (or, indeed, Liberal Democrats) might do a better job?
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Sport And Children - More Opportunity, Less Participation?
An overwhelming majority of adults believes that children have more opportunity to play sport than they had, but are less active. This is one of the findings of a new Nestle & acute; Family Monitor study on 'Sport and the Family' undertaken with the Youth Sport Trust.
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Can't Pay?, Won't Pay?, Bride And Groom Must Pay
Lots of reasons are touted today why fewer and fewer couples are getting married - a lack of spiritual faith, a divorce culture, serial monogamy and a lowering of moral fibre throughout the western world!
Increasingly another reason is being cited - the EXPENSE.