Buzz up! Digg it Polly Curtis and Anthea Lipsett , Wednesday 10 June 2009 21.29 BST Up to 40,000 of this year's graduates will still be struggling to find work in six months' time, according to figures compiled for the Guardian that reveal the scale of the 's impact on the class of...

In their public pronouncements the universities have been polite about the summary execution of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and its incorporation into Peter Mandelson's...

The Prime Minister has been accused of double standards today after claiming at Prime Ministers Questions that the country faced a choice between a government prepared to invest in the future and a Tory Party which is going to...

The Government has merged its research and skills department with its business department to create a super-department in charge of work and training. The new department has 11 ministers, four of whom can attend Cabinet...

Dr Paul Dorey, Chairman of the Institute of Information Security Professionals, explores the reasons why some IT security risks remain unmanaged If you had a badly managed security risk in your IT organisation, why wouldnt you do something about it? Most people would act if they really knew about a risk...

URL: http://www.computing.co.uk/ Source: Computing Gordon Brown's latest reshuffle has left the government without a minister for digital engagement after former Cabinet Office minister Tom Watson stepped down from the...

UNEMPLOYED apprentices are to be helped back into work by the Scottish Government paying firms up to £2,000 to hire them. Education Secretary Fiona Hyslop was due to announce the...

The SNP Scottish Government today announced support of £2000 for firms to take on young apprentices who face redundancy before completing their...

This was one of the key messages which attendees took away from the seminar "Business Solutions for a Recession" held in Peterborough at the end of April...

One of the highest paid IT experts in government, Ian Watmore, last month justified every penny of his £200,000 salary at a single hearing of the Public Accounts...

LONDON - 'The Apprentice' star Sir Alan Sugar has come under renewed pressure to leave the show following his first appearance in his new role where he appeared in a government-backed event dubbed "The Apprentice".

In jeans and a casual jacket, he looked more like Del Boy Trotter than one of Britain's leading businessmen. This is Sir Alan Sugar, the Government's new enterprise tsar, leaving his company...

Breaking news! I knew that Baron Mandelson, of Foy in the County of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the County of Durham, as he is officially called, was grand but, until yesterday, I had no idea just how incredibly important he has...

Skills for Logistics has established the SfL Research & Policy Group, which aims to help improve the logistics sector and skills development within it by better understanding the political, economic and social environment the sector operates...

Grants to inspire adults to learn new things through informal learning The Learning Revolution Transformation Fund of £20 million from DIUS (now named Department for Business Innovation and Skills) offers grants of various sizes to help projects get...

Sir Alan Sugar is on Tyneside in his first role as the government's new enterprise tsar. The self-made millionaire is visiting Gateshead to front a campaign encouraging more young people to take up apprenticeships.

Commenting on the Government reshuffle, Lord Drayson, Minister for Science and Innovation, in the newly formed Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, said: "The Prime Minister remains fully committed to science and innovation and is giving me the resource and framework to drive this...

Sir Alan Sugar will be on Tyneside later in his first role as the government's new Enterprise...

There has been widespread criticism of Gordon Brown's decision to scrap the universities and skills department.

' Training Press Releases ' Private sector training is a £2.9 billion market with radically different aims from the work funded by the Learning and Skills Council, a new report concludes. The Inquiry into the Future of Lifelong Learning, sponsored by Niace, the adult education body, found that employers...