‘No sport and news’ programmes on new TV channel
The News Review:
- ‘No sport and news’ programmes on new TV channel
- Nation Pushes Forward Own Encryption Standard
- NHS clamps down on recruiting nurses from abroad
- Q&A: Your immigration system concerns
- Search for Eriksson’s successor is not a fashion parade: let’s…
‘No sport and news’ programmes on new TV channel
Ireland Online – Mar 7, 2006
But sports fans, kids and news junkies will have to look elsewhere for their TV fix. As station founder and director Michael Murphy said: “No sport, no news and no children’s – just pure entertainment. ”Aiming for a modest 3% share of the under 35 audience in the county’s towns and cities, Channel 6 bosses have lined up a string of ageing hits including The Sopranos, Dawson’s Creek and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. New award winning shows The American Office, hospital drama House and comedy My Name is Earl have also been secured.
Nation Pushes Forward Own Encryption Standard
CRI – Mar 7, 2006
The landmark move, backed by the Chinese Government, underlines the country’s increasing determination to reduce reliance on foreign vendors at a time when “independent innovation” has become a catchphrase. And that might revive the WAPI tussle between China and the United States, the most serious high-tech trade dispute between the two countries in recent years. WAPI (wireless authentication and privacy infrastructure) differs from the existing global standard, which is backed mainly by US chipmaker Intel and is widely regarded as less secure. Twenty-two Chinese firms, including big names such as the Founder Group, Lenovo, Hisense, Haier, Huawei Technologies, Datang Mobile and Datang Microelectronics Technology, became the founding members of the WAPI Industrial Alliance yesterday.
NHS clamps down on recruiting nurses from abroad
PersonnelToday.com – Mar 7, 2006
Health minister Lord Warner said the government had invested heavily in nurse training and recruitment policies and there were now 82,000 more nurses working in the NHS than when Labour came to power in 1997. “Large-scale international nurse recruitment across the NHS was only ever intended to be a short-term measure. The aim of the NHS has always been to look towards home-grown staff in the first instance and have a diverse workforce that reflects local communities,” he said. Dr Beverly Malone, RCN general secretary, told BBC News Online: “If this proposal goes ahead I guarantee that the effects will be far-reaching and immediate. “More than 150,000 nurses are due to retire in the next five to 10 years and we will not replace them all with home-grown nurses alone. ”
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Q&A: Your immigration system concerns
BBC News – Mar 7, 2006
Labour argued that this was not workable. Having said that, the new system will see a Skills Advisory Body come into force, an agency charged with roughly working out how many plumbers or engineers we actually need to plug gaps in the economy. Q: Who makes the decision as to which field is experiencing a “skills shortage”? Why can’t we increase the training for home grown students so there are more doctors, etc?
Raj
The decisions will be based on the advice of something called the Skills Advisory Body – this agency will work with industry and government to try and work out where the gaps are and how quickly to fill them. In effect, what this does is put on a more official footing the kind of negotiations and lobbying that goes on all the time where employers go to the Home Office and appeal to bring in more workers for their particular sector – for instance farmers who like using Eastern European students to pick crops. Some economists argue that bringing in doctors from abroad may be cheaper for the British tax payer – we don’t pay the costs of their tuition – but is creates a “brain drain” in the originating country. The other way of looking at it is that many foreign-born workers send a lot of money home to their families and communities – valuable foreign currency that can make a real difference quickly in the developing world. Q: I am currently in the UK under the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme.
Search for Eriksson’s successor is not a fashion parade: let’s…
Times Online – Mar 8, 2006
Who knows, an Englishman without a trophy to his name could, before breakfast, have 20 better ideas than Ottmar Hitzfeld. Luiz Felipe Scolari, who has not previously shown any inclination to work with English players, might cut straight to the heart of England’s deficiencies in a way that leaves every home-grown candidate standing. What international football cries out for is the one thing that can show through only at interview: imagination. Had Eriksson been lightly grilled rather than slavishly schmoozed in Rome, the past five years might not have been such an anticlimax for those who foolishly equated foreign with radical and different. Ultimately, an impressive CV should be a means only of being included on the shortlist, after which all candidates should be equal. This is why, as Brian Barwick, the FA chief executive, traverses the British Isles and Europe, we must hope that he has more written on his crib sheet than “how much?” and “when can you start?” The suggestion that Trevor Brooking will be involved in the process is also encouraging, affording hope that, if technical issues are to be discussed, a football man will at least steer the debate.