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What Does 'Heritage' Mean To You?
MORI Poll Reveals Overwhelming Support For The Historic Environment
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Business On Blair
Q1 Do you think the economic condition of the country will improve, stay the same, or get worse over the next 12 months?
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Royal College Of Nursing / MORI Poll Fuels Debate Around Definition Of Nursing Care
Eight out of ten (83%) registered nurses support the view that much of what health care assistants (HCAs) do is actually nursing care.
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Parents Have A Vital Role In Boosting Standards In Education - Blair And Blunkett
As parents send their children back-to-school Prime Minister Tony Blair and Secretary of State for Education and Employment David Blunkett joined forces to underline the vital role of parents as children's primary educators.
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One In Three Brits Would Prefer To Pre-Arrange Their Own Funeral
A recent MORI poll commissioned by QM4.com shows that one in three Brits would like to pre-arrange their own funeral. Those interviewed said they'd prefer to plan their own funeral more than organising their own stag/hen night or choosing the sex of their baby.
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Parents Trust Their Net Savvy Children
Reports of children surfing the Net like zombies, exposed to pornography, gore and virtual violence are disputed by a Reader's Digest survey which reveals that most parents trust their children to surf the Net safely and believe that it has a positive effect on their children's education.
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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?