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New Heads' Poll Supports Blunkett's Approach To Education Reform
Education and Employment Secretary David Blunkett said today that it was important for Government to strike a balance between local autonomy and Government intervention - particularly in school reform.
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Intensive Vote Farming in Barnet
The spread of foot-and-mouth disease through the rural areas has brought the rural vote back to the top of the election agenda - although, at the same time, it has thrown into some doubt whether there will be an election at all when we have all been confidently expecting it, on 3 May. I have already written [Rural Voters - 20 October 2000] about how much smaller and less influential the rural vote is than almost everybody supposes. But even some of those rural areas are simply rural in the sense of not being urban; they are not full of farmers. The genuinely agricultural vote is smaller still.
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Results Of Major Survey On Attitudes To Human Genetics
A major new MORI survey of the Government's People's Panel has found broad support for the benefits offered by human genetic research, but some misgivings about the regulation of such developments in the future.
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Government Should Act Now To Unlock The Potential Of The Digital Economy Or Risk Damaging Consequences
A report released today by think-tank Forum for the Future calls on the Government to seize the social and environmental opportunities created by the internet and e-commerce. With the right blend of policy and incentives, the new economy could become cleaner, greener and more socially inclusive than then old. But without concerted action now, we run the risk of problems in the future from increased social exclusion, to streets jammed with half-empty delivery vans and a substantial growth in air freight.
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Scientists Believe Public Needs To Know About What Their Research Means For Society
Nine in ten scientists believe that the public needs to know about the social and ethical implications of scientific research, according to a new study from biomedical research charity the Wellcome Trust.
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Professionals shifting to self-employment - but with no support from bank managers or politicians
Alodis, the UK's first independent service for Self-employed Professionals, launches today with new research by MORI, highlighting a growing trend among skilled workers to reject office life and work for themselves.
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Mobile Customers Prepared To Use Location-Based Services
Customers willing to pay up to 35 DEM per month to use location-based services
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82% Of People Think British Companies Should Be Legally Required To Consult
More than eight out of ten (82%) people believe that companies should be legally required to discuss their closure plans with their workforce, according to a MORI poll for the Transport and General Workers' Union, the UK's largest manufacturing union. The poll is released on the day T&G General Secretary Bill Morris attacked "the unacceptable face of corporate decision making we have seen from Vauxhall in Luton, Ford in Dagenham and Rover in Longbridge," where workers found out about factory closures from the media.