Month: August 2018

Pay rises for chief executives are up 11% – only shareholders can apply the brakeNormal service is restored. Normal, that is, for members of FTSE 100 chief executive club. They enjoyed a collective 11% pay rise in 2017, having suffered a shocking 12% fall in 2016, according to the annual Read more…

FTSE 100 CEO earnings rise six time faster than the average worker, High Pay Centre saysPay for chief executives at Britain’s biggest listed companies rose more than six times faster than wages in the wider workforce last year as the average boss’s pay packet hit £3.9m.Chief executive pay at businesses Read more…

Number of disadvantaged students at Russell Group institutions virtually unchanged since 2010Ministers have been accused of a “total and abject failure” to widen access to top universities for disadvantaged students, after analysis by the Labour party found the proportions attending Russell Group universities had increased by only one percentage point Read more…

As judge prepares key ruling, Siti Aisyah’s mother recounts her daughter’s journey from aspiring TV star to suspected tool of North Korean regimeIn the beginning, there were a few times that Benah pretended not to know her daughter, Siti Aisyah. She just couldn’t face the questions.One day while Benah was Read more…

Neolithic ceremonial monuments and Iron Age settlements exposed beneath parched yellow grass Via: Heatwave reveals hidden archaeological sites across Britain's countryside