Students line up to rate their universities
Six out of 10 final-year students have taken part in the biggest ever survey of student opinion, disclosing in detail how they rate their academic experience at universit...
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Breast cancer survival rates improving
Breast cancer treatments designed to prevent a return of the disease after surgery have had a dramatic impact on the long-term survival of women, scientists report today....
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Welsh colleges urged to address staff absence rates
High levels of absence among further education lecturers in Wales are disrupting students' learning and costing ?9m in year in lost time and replacement staff, a new repo...
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Why do suicide rates peak in the spring?
Psychiatrists have been scratching their chins over this one for years. Counterintuitively, the arrival of spring and the long sunny days it ushers in, mark a staggering ...
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Bank of England hints interest rates have peaked
Expectations that interest rates might come down this year grew yesterday after the Bank of England signalled it was unlikely to raise them in the near future.
The gove...
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Retailers press for lower rates
Labour's third-term stewardship of the economy got off to the worst possible start today with news of a spring slump in consumer spending and evidence of the steepest dro...
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I wasn't offered the headline rate
Q I am currently looking for a loan to consolidate the debt I amassed while studying at university and living away from home. I applied for a British Gas loan - 5.9% annu...
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Flat house prices bear down on rates
The Bank of England's monetary policy committee, due to report on Monday, has come under further pressure to leave interest rates unchanged after it emerged that house pr...
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Interest rates up again in the US
The US Federal Reserve responded to signs of growing inflationary pressure in the world's biggest economy last night by raising interest rates for the eighth time in a ro...
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Bank expected to hold interest rates
Weak economic data today all but ensured that the Bank of England would hold interest rates steady next week.
A manufacturing survey by the Chartered Institute of Purcha...
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