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Digger firm JCB carves out business in education

An academy school specialising in the Government's new practical and academic diplomas is to be sponsored by mechanical digger firm, JCB. The JCB Academy will provide education in engineering, manufacturing and international...

Tories demand inquiry into 'chaos' surrounding delayed student grants

An independent inquiry must be held into the "chaos" surrounding delayed student grant payments, the Conservatives have demanded. By Graeme Paton, Education Editor A month after courses started, more than 100,000 teenagers have...

Revealed: BBC man’s intriguing web of friendships behind the scoop that shocked the banking world

He is the TV face of the credit crunch whose dramatic scoop last week wiped millions off the price of bank shares. The BBC’s business editor Robert Peston has broken a string of exclusives on the financial crisis which have led...

Catherine Bennett: So teachers must be spies - now that really is a bit extreme

Where are school staff to learn their anti-terrorist techniques? Turn to the pages of a John le Carré novel Leaving aside the constraints of the national curriculum, there seems no reason why our teachers should not double as...

Look back in wonder

As Peter Mandelson makes another return to the cabinet, Julian Glover revisits his book The Blair Revolution. Every political age needs a book, and Mandelson delivered it almost 13 years ago in The Blair Revolution, serialised...

Richard Reeves: A crisis of capitalisation – not a crisis of capitalism

The current financial crisis gives some socialists more than mere schadenfreude at the humiliation of former Masters of the Universe in the City and on Wall Street. At the Labour Party conference, Ed Balls said that those who...

Richard Ingrams’ Week: Being in the Met means never having to say you're sorry

"We did nothing wrong," so said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick, giving evidence at the inquest into the shooting in July 2005 of Jean Charles de Menezes. Perhaps worst of all, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dick...

The week ahead in Westminster

The Record is BBC Parliament's regular round-up of the preceding day's stories in Westminster All eyes are on the Lords on Monday, when Peter Mandelson is introduced into the House for the first time. Few politicians attract...

Geoff Hoon interview

Geoff Hoon "kissed hands" with the Queen this week and took the seals of office as her new Secretary of State for Transport. By Andrew Porter and James Kirkup Geoff Hoon clearly relishes the nuts-and-bolts aspects of overseeing...

The onward march of Vince Cable: you read it here first

The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman is now the bookies' favourite to be the next Chancellor The Political Betting website is always worth a look and today it has a fascinating piece about the betting on Vince Cable to...

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