The Spectator’s summer debating season ended with a strident appeal. ‘Too late to save Britain. It’s time to leave’. Proposing the motion, Rod Liddle claimed to have mis-read his invitation. ‘I thought this was a foregone conclusion and we’d come here to arrange the tickets.’ Surging immigration, he said, was ruining the education system and our love lives...
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Spectator on 25th Jun 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary, will say in a keynote speech today to the Sunday Times Festival of Education: "Michael Gove has mis-sold his reforms. Far from delivering localism and autonomy, they centralise power and politicise our education system. The Secretary of State is taking control of the curriculum away from independent experts, he is making himself judge and ...
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LabourMatters on 25th Jun 2011 (via labourmatters.com)
Pearson Phoenix, a provider of management information systems (MIS) for schools, has released initial findings from its annual BETT 2009 survey, revealing that system interoperability has become the key factor for schools when considering a new MIS.
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PublicTechnology on 28th Jan 2009 (via publictechnology.net)
Ofcom has set out new proposals to stamp out slamming and other forms of mis-selling in the fixed line telecoms market.
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PublicTechnology on 19th Mar 2009 (via publictechnology.net)
Cases of widespread mis-selling of financial products are to be handled as a group to limit harm to consumers and speed up compensation claims
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FT on 16th Jun 2011 (via ft.com)
TWO Scottish power companies are to be investigated by the energy watchdog amid concerns of mis-selling of contracts to consumers, it was announced yesterday.
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Scotsman on 2nd Sep 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
The FSA penalises five car dealers for failing to monitor advice given by their sales staff as it steps up its campaign against payment protection insurance mis-selling
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FT on 22nd Aug 2008 (via ft.com)
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Treasury minister Stephen Timms has revealed that the Financial Ombudsman Service is still receiving over 500 complaints a week concerning mis-selling of payment protection insurance.
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ePolitix on 27th Jan 2009 (via rss.feedsportal.com)
The Tories accuse the government of "mis-selling" ID cards after Alistair Darling appeared to suggest they would be scrapped.
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BBCPolitics on 15th Dec 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
David Bader, PhD, the Director, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, writes today seeking to "clarify several mis-impressions on your "climateaudit.org" web site" regarding the archiving of Santer's data, the correspondence being shown below. Readers may recall an earlier post here in which I requested data from Santer et al 2008, in response to
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ClimateAudit on 31st Jan 2009 (via climateaudit.org)
The chairman of a company fined £1.12m for pension mis-selling has been appointed by two cabinet ministers to head the government's new drive for more apprenticeships in the private sector. Simon Waugh, the chairman of AWD De Vere Wealth Management, has been made chief executive of the National Apprenticeship Service by Ed Balls, the schools secretary, and John Denham, the universities ...
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Guardian on 9th Dec 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
