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...At New City College in London, about one-third of the 1,500 students that sat BTec qualifications did not receive their marks, according to principal Gerry McDonald, who described the situation as “distressing...
...Ministers, however, face a difficult choice, said Chris McDonald of the Materials Processing Institute, an industry research group....
...Russia accounts for about 5 per cent of Schlumberger’s total revenues, which were $22.9bn in 2021, or about $1.15bn....
...Tomorrow, I’ll be interviewing keynote speaker David Mercer, chief executive of LMAX Group at 3:55 GMT +1, and on Wednesday I’ll be chairing a panel on NFTs from 1:55 GMT +1....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...The imperial overlords exacted a 1 per cent export tax on Netherlandish goods. By the 1540s, Antwerp paid 75 per cent of this revenue....
...The government confirmed a Financial Times report on Wednesday that Jonathan Slater, the permanent secretary, would leave his position on September 1....
...Philip Barton, the UK’s high commissioner in Delhi, has been appointed as permanent secretary to lead the new Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office from September 1....
...In November, we were celebrating the announcement that the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine seemed to be highly effective against Covid-19, followed with bewildering speed by similar claims for the Sputnik V, Moderna...
...Simon McDonald, permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, is expected to stand down as permanent secretary of the newly merged FCDO next year, after a normal competitive process to find his successor....
...Mary Lou McDonald, the Sinn Féin leader, said her party was “ready to do business” and nominate ministers to a new government....
...Additional reporting by Laura Hughes in London...
...Apple’s rather anaemic year-on-year revenue growth of 1 per cent is a reminder that not all Big Tech is immune from the shocks to supply and demand....
...Or so Casanova told the graphic designer Siaron Hughes, shortly before he died....
...Buttigieg secured 26.2 per cent of delegates, compared to Bernie Sanders’s 26.1 per cent....
...They expect a V-shaped recovery in China after a first-quarter slump, with Patrick predicting tax cuts for sectors hurt by the coronavirus....
...“Imagine walking into a McDonald’s and interacting with Ronald McDonald himself,” he says....
...Revenues of £258m was also light v consensus £260m despite AUM in line suggesting some margin compression, which we suspect comes from the mix of flows....
...According to Baker Hughes, the oil and gas rig count in the US reached a new record low of 339 last week (its lowest level since at least 1940)....
...Sterling fell as much as 0.5 per cent from its highs of the day against the US dollar on the news, to $1.3020....
...The $1.75bn project will bring gas to a hub near the port city of Corpus Christi, Texas....
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...(Annals of Family Medicine) Podcast of the week Criminal treatment Nearly 50 per cent of US prison inmates are mentally ill yet many receive very limited therapy, says Alisa Roth, author of a new book...
...I like to think I can still discover things in them that can’t be found online. rarebooks.ie The best gift I’ve given recently was a set of Cuttings V wine glasses by Martino Gamper for J Hill’s Standard...
...A 34oz bottle of P&G’s Pantene Pro-V Shampoo & Conditioner was listed by 10 different sellers — nine of them third parties — on the shopping site....
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