Author Archives: mikewpaice

Care needs to be taken in considering any limits on compensation levels for discrimination cases – see Next steps in review of employment law. Few people will escape without ever experiencing some level of employer discrimination during their lifetime. Often … Continue reading →

Image courtesy of the European Commission Oh come on, you knew didn’t you? 9th May, the day back in 1950 when Robert Schuman called upon European nations to pool together their coal and steel resources, paving the way to the … Continue reading →

Successive UK governments have long harped on about the importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects and quite rightly so. Has all this talk amounted to much? Well, it seems not. New research shows that people feel less … Continue reading →

I have, perhaps, given over too much of my ever dwindling brain power to the AV debate. As much as anything, I have been trying to decide if there really is merit in the proposed system of ranking candidates in … Continue reading →

The Kauffman Foundation in the U.S.A. has published a report today that has found that “high-skilled immigrant entrepreneurs from India and China are leaving the United States by the tens of thousands each year”. And the main reason – better … Continue reading →

Photo courtesy of FreeFoto.com A couple of days ago my friends at the Bdaily Business Network Northeast inadvertently “set me off on one”. An article had been posted about a very commendable programme offering start-up funding to rural start-up and micro-businesses … Continue reading →

Photo courtesy of H. M. Treasury I suppose that the best thing we can say about this morning’s announcement on Q1 GDP (still 0.5%) is that there weren’t really any surprises. The economy is still very much dependent on its … Continue reading →