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Making Britain competitive
The long-awaited government white paper on competitiveness, launched on May 24, has implications for community affairs managers.
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Deprivation in the
Countryside
Deprivation and disadvantage is widespread in rural areas, not just restricted to urban areas.
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Local economic
development
As the economy moves out of recession, the advice needs of new and expanding small businesses become more urgent, while the scope for local economic strategies grows more promising.
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The training revolution
Criticisms are mounting about the government's new system for training and qualifications, despite the support many companies give to the TEC movement.
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Reviving the Cities
Rhetoric or reality - is the government serious about tackling inner city decay?
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Urban areas
Britain is still divided between north and south on a wide range of social and economic factors, according to an analysis of the 1991 census data published on August 11 by the School for Advanced Urban Studies at Bristol University.
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The business of bettering
schools
Despite figures showing the growing involvement of business in school management and raising standards, there remains a hard core of under-achievers which two new initiatives aim to help.
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Piling on the pressure
At the fifth national TEC conference, the mood was of a still-young movement maturing and facing the challenges, while a government speakers exhorted them to greater effort.
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BAT Industries - Tackling
the inner city blues
Sir Patrick Sheehy's report for the Home Secretary on the future management of the police force has put the spotlight onto the chairman of BAT Industries, a £19 billion world-wide business employing 200,000 people.
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Regeneration
At a seminar in London on July 30, a group of community development specialists heard Joan Shapiro from the South Shore Bank of Chicago explain how her bank is making money through reviving distressed communities.
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Up to any good in the
community?
June sees the start of the 1993 UK Volunteers Week, as a revamped Employee Involvement Award is launched.
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