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Glasgow start-ups 'to be rent-free'

30 November 2007

Start-up businesses in Glasgow are to get rent-free accommodation to help them get off the ground.

Investment promised to narrow the North-South divide

30 November 2007

A £3 million investment has been promised to help regeneration practitioners research new ways to narrow the North-South divide.

Joint focus urged for North's regions

30 November 2007

England's northern regions should produce a joint spatial strategy to boost their collective economic development, says a think-tank.

Call to target funds at six technologies

30 November 2007

Public resources for supporting science and innovation should be targeted at six new technologies, according to a government science advisory group.

Work contracts to become longer

30 November 2007

Public contracts for private sector and voluntary organisations to deliver services to get the long-term jobless into work will become "longer and larger", the DWP said this week.

Training initiative open to volunteers

30 November 2007

A scheme that pays firms to train workers in skills such as management, computing and basic maths is to be extended to the voluntary and community sector, the Government said this week.

Report on transport investment in British cities

30 November 2007

Potential returns on transport investment in British cities are going "uncounted and unrecognised", a think-tank warns this week.

Workshops aim to raise sustainable awareness

30 November 2007

A new series of online workshops aimed at raising awareness of the skills required to develop socially, economically and environmentally sustainable communities is to be launched next year.

Cross-Whitehall plans point way back to work

30 November 2007

You don't hear so much about joined-up government from Labour ministers these days.

You cannot escape from the economy

By Sir Peter Hall

30 November 2007

Fifty years in the academic trade teach you one lesson: there's no substitute for students.