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Health Service Workers Are The Gloomiest Staff In The Public Services
Health service workers are markedly more disillusioned with their jobs and have less faith in their leaders than their counterparts in the education and local government sectors.
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Computer Games For Learning
NESTA Futurelab, a leading organisation in educational technology, commissioned Ipsos to conduct a survey investigating teachers' attitudes to mainstream computer games as part of their research project Teaching with Games, which is funded by Electronic Arts (EA).
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Growing Dissatisfaction Amongst Public Sector Workers
Public sector workers are nearly three times as likely to be critics of the services they provide as private sector workers — and public sector dissatisfaction has increased over the course of 2005.
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Reviewing 'Positive Futures'
MORI is in its third year of evaluating and monitoring Positive Futures, which is a social inclusion initiative. The scheme aims to support some of the most at risk young people within England, by engaging them in sport and providing opportunities to access education, training and employment, and to develop key life skills.
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Staff Satisfaction And Performance
MORI's new report — commissioned by IDeA — is now available. The report reviews council staff satisfaction in relation to CPA-ratings. It indicates that employees working for CPA-rated 'excellent' and 'good' authorities seem the most satisfied. A logical conclusion maybe, but the survey uncovers several underlying reasons why this is the case.
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Does Ebusiness Mean Good Business?
European companies leading in the take-up of ebusiness are more likely to engage on social and environmental issues, according to a MORI survey. The research was commissioned by Forum for the Future for the European Commission-funded project Digital Europe. For the survey, Corporate Social Responsibility practitioners and IT practitioners in large UK and Northern European companies were interviewed. This was to evaluate their ebusiness practices and performance in sustainable development, and then used statistical techniques such as factor analysis and cluster analysis to identify a link between the two.
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Brits Lose Inhibitions And Express Themselves Online
Ninety six per cent of British people commit themselves to a pastime. However 77 per cent of those who would like to pursue a new interest are held back by the lack of time and money available to them, reveals research from MORI and Lycos UK, one of Europe's leading Internet destinations.
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UK and German Businesses See 'Looking Good' As Key Benefit Of E-Business
The development of a progressive image is seen as the main benefit of e-business, according to UK and German businesses, more so than improved customer relations or reductions in overheads.
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Teachers Call For Changes To Higher Still Assessments
A clear majority of Scottish teachers (59%) believe that Higher Still internal assessment has "not worked" in its first full year of implementation. At the same time, 60% support the introduction of Higher Still in principle.
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Barriers Still Need To Be Breached By Women Entrepreneurs
Preliminary figures released from a report to be published early next year suggest that although women find it easier to become entrepreneurs now than they did a decade ago, there is still some way to go to bring the level of UK women engaged in entrepreneurial activities up to that seen in the USA.