What a week it has been in this week’s news! Here’s our highlights that concern the industries that we operate within.
EMPLOYMENT NEWS
The South West has become the UK’s most employed region after a huge upturn during the last quarter. Plymouth Herald . Read more here .
Accounting employment figures have risen in the last quarter despite the employment downturn in the UK. The C Suite . Read more here .
AVIATION NEWS
All eyes are currently focussed on UK aviation safety laws, spearheaded by a Manchester MP. Manchester Evening News . Read more here .
Aviation equipment experts have made recommendations to an Ethiopian flight which caught fire whilst at Heathrow Airport. Aviation Week . Read more here .
CONSTRUCTION NEWS
Many of the UK’s largest construction contractors have won work on the huge Thames Tideway Tunnel project slated to begin construction in early 2016. LSE . Read more here .
UK construction output will increase by 13.2% by 2017 according to the latest forecasts by the Construction Products Association. KHL . Read more here .
EDUCATION NEWS
The UK GCSE results were released last week, with overall top grades decreasing while minimum A-C grades attained increased. BBC . Read more here .
Less pupils in the UK are interested in studying a foreign language. Independent . Read more here .
HEALTHCARE NEWS
Cuts to the British healthcare system has begun to affect the private healthcare sector. The Telegraph . Read more here .
Apple has released a brand new healthcare platform which will give medical providers vital patient information in emergencies. Belfast Telegraph . Read more here .
SCIENTIFIC NEWS
British pharmaceutical giants GSK has sold a pioneering multiple sclerosis drug to Novartis in a deal worth £650 million. The Telegraph . Read more here .
Horizon Pharma has seen it's $1.81 billion takeover bid for Depomed Inc declined for the third time. Reuters UK . Read more here .
