Government heralds lower graduate payments
The Department for Education and Skills today sought to "clarify" the impact of top-up fees ahead of this weekend's anti-fee demonstrations, with the release of figures s...
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No one takes credit from payments delay fiasco
Elizabeth Lewis extended her overdraft, remortgaged her home and even packed her 12- year-old daughter off to her sister's house in a desperate effort to make ends meet w...
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AWG comes clean over ?500,000 in special bonus payments
AWG, the Anglian water and infrastructure management group, paid almost £500,000 in special bonuses to four directors last year in a move it accepts falls short of c...
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Heads seek end of upfront school payments
Headteachers today called on the government to drop its requirement that schools raise ?50,000 before being awarded specialist status.
As the school standards minister, ...
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French oil chief admits payments
A former chief of the French oil giant at the centre of a money scandal acknowledged in court yesterday that commissions on oil deals were paid to African leaders.
The...
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Prudential slashes bonus payments
Prudential today joined the growing list of insurers to cut bonus payments on with-profits saving and investment products because of falling share prices.
The group sai...
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Revenue clamps down on baksheesh payments
The Inland Revenue last night insisted that a complex tax avoidance measure adopted by City firms to pay staff bonuses in Turkish lira had been tackled by the chancellor ...
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Shayler jury hears of newspaper payments
Thousands of pounds paid by a national newspaper to David Shayler, the former MI5 officer, after he provided it with secret documents, was dispersed in a number of differ...
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EU sets farm payments for new members
Europe's costly farm subsidies must be reformed because they damage the developing world, Tony Blair warned last night as Britain and France squabbled publicly over finan...
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Adviser warns: stop RSA policy payments
One of Britain's biggest financial advisers yesterday told policyholders at Royal & Sun Alliance to consider urgently pulling their cash out of the troubled insurer, ...
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