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In a bid to reduce the demand on public funds the CBI are proposing that students personally contribute much more to the costs of their education. Students are arguing that this would result in far fewer people entering higher education. Both sides have a case. However the real issue is not the cost of higher education, but its purpose. (more…)

Our local Italian restaurant is closing this week, after over thirty years. No great surprise you might think, family-run Italian restaurants, once a permanent feature of the British high street have been disappearing for decades. But this closure is a direct result of the recession, if you had told Mario last summer that he would be gone within nine months he would have thought you were mad. So what does someone aged fifty, who has run their own business since the 1970s do now? (more…)