New teacher degree apprenticeship will support schools to recruit and retain the excellent teachers they need in vital subjects including maths. A new teaching apprenticeship will launch this autumn revolutionising the way schools recruit teachers while supporting more people to earn while they study for a degree.
It might have flown under the radar compared with news on interest rates from both sides of the pond, but the first monthly estimate for Scottish GDP in November 2023 was released this week by the Scottish Government, alongside the Quarterly National Accounts publication for quarter 3 of 2023. There are two main areas of news.
Many of you will know Kaye Adams from her radio and tv broadcasting. What you may not know is that she has been fighting HMRC for nearly 10 years and finally won her case recently.
The latest annual inflation rate rise to 4% has dampened expectations about how soon the Bank of England might start cutting interest rates. Marginally higher than the previous month's figure of 3.9%, it was a surprise to some economists.
500 support trucks will be delivered to the British Army, to support operational activity, following a rapid procurement process of just 7 months. 500 support trucks will be delivered to the British Army in 2024 to support operational activity, following a rapid procurement process.
UK security will be boosted through a vast new contract - worth nearly £2 billion - that will ensure the long-term availability and resilience of critical naval assets. £1.85 billion contract to sustain world-class leading sonar and sensors for Royal Navy ships and submarines Defence Secretary announces 450 UK jobs to be created or sustained across the UK AI and data management to analyse availability and reduce repair times and increase ship availability UK security will be boosted through a vast new contract - worth nearly £2 billion - that will ensure the long-term availability and resilience of critical assets used by Royal Navy ships and submarines over the next 15 years.
Tougher powers to tackle livestock worrying have taken a significant step forward today (2 February) with the announcement of government backing for new legislation. Livestock worrying - when dogs chase, attack, or cause distress to livestock - can result in significant injury and suffering and in the worst cases, the death of the animals involved.
Drawing on a recent survey of academic perceptions and uses of generative AI, Richard Watermeyer, Donna Lanclos and Lawrie Phipps suggest that the potential efficiency promised by these tools disclose which work is and isn't valued in academia. Widespread use of generative AI tools in academia seems inevitable.
Roz Foyer, STUC General Secretary writing in The Herald today sums up many problems facing the Highlands and not least NHS Highland cancellations of many projects. The Highlands and Islands may be celebrated for their beauty, their lush landscapes and scenic hills, but for many workers life is a struggle.
Highlands and Islands Labour MSP, Rhoda Grant, says the SNP Government is leaving the North to crumble. The MSP again raised the issue of the condition of the roads in the Highlands with the Scottish Government as she highlighted that the roads backlog for repairs in the Highlands this year stands at a staggering £233million.
Dynamic business support programme, IMPACT30, is aimed at nurturing and empowering the next generation of innovative leaders. The fully funded programme is for people aged under 35 in a young enterprise and in a key decision-making role.
Most businesses in the Highlands and Islands consider their links with the local community as either equal to or more important than their profitable growth. This is one of the key findings of the most recent rural business survey commissioned by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) in partnership with South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE).
Local contractors and organisations are wanted to tender for repairs and maintenance to 700 homes in Caithness. The contract will last for three years and begin in April 2024.
The Scottish Government will not be able to phase out fossil-fuel home heating systems by 2045 unless it significantly increases the scale and pace of activity. Ministers published the Heat in Buildings Strategy in 2021 and officials then spent almost two years building a team to deliver it.
Orkney Islands Council delivers high quality services, valued by local communities. Now the council must shift its focus to the future, ensuring services remain financially sustainable.
Ian Hislop at his best, bringing us up-to-date on some of the background details on what has been called the greatest miscarriage of justice in recent British history. Ian Hislop fearlessly telling it like it is on the Post Office scandal: 'We're talking perjury here, we're not talking incompetence...
The first of a two-stage approach to new legal safeguards on XL Bully dogs will come into force on 23 February subject to parliamentary approval. From this date, it will remain legal to own an XL Bully dog but owners must ensure their dogs are muzzled and on a lead when in a public place.
More than 38,000 pubs are set to benefit from six-month freeze to alcohol duty from today. The great British pub receives further boost from today as a six-month alcohol duty freeze to 1 August 2024 takes effect.
In the benefit system, entitlement and need are intertwined: the greater the need, the more benefit income a family is usually entitled to receive. But in the 2010s, two policies were introduced that delinked entitlement and need by limiting the amount of benefits some families could receive: the benefit cap in 2013, and the two-child limit in 2017.
The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday it was keeping interest rates at their current levels amid improving consumer confidence and a declining inflation rate. In the run-up to Wednesday's announcement, some Fed officials have been signaling that the current rate has been enough to knock inflation down toward the central bank's 2% target.
