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The effect of the recession on recruitment, retention, and training in the engineering sector is examined. The skills shortages present in the sector over the past 24 months have been alleviated by the recession and the current economic fragility. The direct and indirect benefits generated by apprenticeships are also explained.

The year 2009 saw the UK move into a full-blown recession. This was the result of sharp falls in both consumer expenditure and investment caused by the crisis in the […]

In my column in Economic Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, I looked at the behaviour of aggregate output during the three major recessions of the UK economy since the 1970s, […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For many of the bigger rental companies in the world the focus just now is de-fleeting selling off excess machines as demand falters. Nowhere is this more evident [...]

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING IS, ABOVE ALL, A PROCESS OF resource integration--developing the strategic vision and practical processes to bring together people, materials, information, equipment and energy to improve organizational productivity and [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Could crisps and snacks be the definitive crunch munch? Consumers are certainly not scaling back on treats in the recession--in fact rather the reverse. Total sales of crisps, [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The health & beauty category must be thanking its lucky stars for the lipstick effect at the moment. Where categories dependent on discretionary spend tend to be hit [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The meat-free category changed in 2008. It had to. A stronger emphasis on innovation, new occasions, health and even the environment--aided by Sir Paul McCartney's call, in The [...]

The reasons that the economic recession is not expected to affect the teaching profession are discussed. Contrary to expectations recruitment of teachers increased and there was an increase in the number of students applying for courses.

If there were a catch phrase to sum up the key trend in soft drinks this year it would be 'value for money'. As such, the king of the category [...]

Collective bargaining has kept its role in the post-Thatcher period as trade unions proved to be important for the private sector during the recession. Trade unions in the UK have the highest membership compared to other voluntary membership organizations at about 7.7 million. Examples of the biggest collective deals are presented.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Which description best fits a typical Nuts reader? A Jack the Lad who likes his beer cold and his women hot? Or a suave fashionista who believes exfoliation [...]

Image is everything, as the saying goes. And it seems the nation's wholesalers agree, with Nisa-Today's, Booker and Palmer & Harvey all giving their symbol fascias a face lift in [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Faisal Lalani is in high spirits. Sales at 99P Stores, where he is buying director, went 'through the roof' in March. The discount store is on course to [...]

SO THE DOOM MONGERS WERE RIGHT all along. Whilst the experts and pundits continue to predict just how bad the recession will be, those who work with the most exposed [...]

IF, AS REPORTED, SO MANY MORE CASES of corruption are anticipated as a result of the current recession (1) that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) finds it necessary to prepare [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For any c-store operator worried about the impact of the recession on their business, there is only one place to be over the next three days--the Convenience Retailing [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When people hear the word retail, they think stocktake, shop floors and stacking shelves. Make no mistake; grocery retail is by no means a one-dimensional career. Retail is [...]

ASK US A QUESTION Richard Brindley Executive director, RIBA Professional Services Patrick Perry Partner with London law firm Barlow Lyde & Gilbert Given the worsening economy and continued erosion of [...]

With no signs that the recession's bite is about to significantly ease off, Anna Winston and David Rogers look at the effect of redundancy on architects who have lost their [...]

From online fraud to data theft, the range and incidence of fraud are growing: UK-based identity theft alone has soared some 20% during the past year, according to Cifas, the [...]

Attendance set to match last year's as property fair takes industry's pulse David Rogers Organisers are expecting next week's Mipim to attract 18,000 visitors and are pinning their hopes on [...]

AMANDA BAILLIEU All around the country sites are standing empty. Now it's time for developers to step up and find alternative uses for their land Developers like to pat themselves [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY The recession has left Dublin's half-hearted and half-finished new buildings open to reinterpretation The Republic of Ireland now has an unemployment rate of 12.5%, and the economy has [...]

KEN LIVINGSTONE Raising taxes and cutting public spending will not save us. Only investment can recover our ailing economy The fact that the three main parties are in a bidding [...]

In normal circumstances, the high-level debaters at the Swiss winter resort of Davos will not be of interest to independent financial advisers. But this year it has been different. As [...]

ED HOLLIS In a recession, someone with a track record of parting people from their cash has their uses Fred Goodwin, he once of the Royal Bank of Scotland, has [...]