Press releases

List of press Articles

  1. Govt should 'pump up the volume' on offshore wind power

    Low jobs, high cost strategy is 'worst of all worlds' for UK's offshore wind industry
  2. Childminders oppose plan for new agencies

    Fears over quality from deregulation
  3. Euroscepticism in England is English not British

    nglish believe they get a raw deal from membership of both the UK & the EU
  4. North/South divide widened by Spending Review

    Single Local Growth Fund is a pigeon step in the right direction
  5. Transport spending north/south divide: £2600 for Londoners but £5 per head in North East

    89 per cent of planned capital investment for projects in London and the South East
  6. Future increases in 'pupil premium' should go to primary schools

    One-to-one tuition & early years investment needed to tackle attainment gap
  7. Civil service reform: study on international evidence published

    hinktank recommends top civil servants be appointed by PM on fixed-term contracts
  8. Bring back polytechnics, says Future of HE Commission

    ack-to-the-future plan to boost status of FE colleges delivering HE courses
  9. More UK unis should use contextual admissions like US Ivy League

    Universities should get £1,000 student premium extra to recruit poorer students
  10. £1bn plan for new Applied Research and Innovation Centres to boost economy

    hink tank commission says R&D tax credits should be redirected to fund new centres
  11. Regional Banks will give the North the chance to drive our own future

    s we welcome the call to arms from the region's newspapers for the devolution of more power and more control over the decisions that affect our lives here in the North East, it is not just the power of government and the Treasury that must…
  12. Post-grads & part-time students need loans

    ommission says "crisis of part-time study" must be halted.?