On the cheap
The government is determined to "smash" school dropout rates, Charles Clarke, the education secretary, said today. But amid the celebration over today's announcement that...
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Distant voices
The fact that there are huge differences in rates of schizophrenia between racial groups, classes and urban/ rural populations is very unlikely to be due to genes. Indee...
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Post Office joins the queue
The Post Office entered the financial services market this week with the launch of an unsecured personal loan which, while living up its marketing blurb of being straight...
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Rebuke for bank over credit card 'upgrade
Jobs & Money can this week reveal a new marketing "upgrade" tactic by credit card company Capital One which has been instantly condemned by consumer advocates.
The ...
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What they said about...
The Bank of England's announcement on Thursday that interest rates would rise by a quarter of a percentage point to 4% had been widely expected. It was, said the Times, a...
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Explicit ads target sex diseases among young
An explicit government advertising campaign will be launched by the Department of Health on Monday as part of a drive to reduce the rates of sexually transmitted diseases...
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Bank's balloon trick
This was one of the most widely expected rate rises for some time. Of 30 analysts polled by Bloomberg, all but one predicted that the Bank of England's monetary policy co...
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No end in sight to dollar's descent
Sterling powered to its highest level against the dollar yesterday since its humiliating ejection from Europe's exchange rate mechanism 11 years ago as the American curre...
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Q&A: council tax increases
So what were the big findings?
The study lent some credence to claims by councils in London and the south-east that the new finance system introduced last year to determi...
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On the fast track to rewarding savings
Nobody - not even Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England - knows what will happen to base rates when the monetary policy committee (MPC) next meets in December. But...
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