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• Speak out, get feedback and don’t be a consumer: advice for a new student

  20-04-2016 19:57
  
  From fees to social media, student life has changed unrecognisably in recent decades. Here, a sociology professor tells undergraduates what they need to know
  A friend asked recently: “What advice would you give to a new student?” His daughter is preparing to start a course at the University of Sheffield. My first thought was to admit that perhaps I am actually not the best person. The student experience today is fundamentally different from what it was 30 years ago.One of the dangers
  
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• FCA wins landbanking case, but investors still likely to lose out

  20-04-2016 18:34
  
  Asset Land’s appeal rejected by supreme court but City regulator says investors likely only to get fraction of money backThe City regulator has won its case against those behind a land investment scam first highlighted by the Guardian in 2009. It is, however, a bittersweet victory for the investors who sunk money into the scheme because they might only get back a tiny fraction of the cash they handed over.The case in the supreme court involved a company called Asset Land, which persuaded i
  
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• UK financial regulator yet to get its hands on Panama Papers - Reuters UK

  20-04-2016 16:20
  
  Reuters UK
  UK financial regulator yet to get its hands on Panama Papers
  Reuters UK
  LONDON Britain's financial regulator has not begun to examine the leaked Panama Papers, which have been combed through by media organisations for news stories, because it has yet to gain full access to the contents. Prime Minister David Cameron has ...en meer »
  
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• UK households downbeat over financial outlook - Yahoo Finance UK

  20-04-2016 15:29
  
  Yahoo Finance UK
  UK households downbeat over financial outlook
  Yahoo Finance UK
  Households' financial expectations for the year ahead took a turn for the worse in April as the pressure from rising prices picked up. For the first time in three months, UK households were downbeat overall about their financial wellbeing over the next ...en meer »
  
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• London had a sub-prime housing problem. Now it has a super-prime crisis

  20-04-2016 13:40
  
  Across London, social housing is being demolished to build luxury towers for global investors. Only eight years since the financial crash, Anna Minton marvels at how, once again, we’ve let the property market spiral out of control I recently took part in a gloomy debate about London’s housing crisis with the celebrated modernist architect Kate Macintosh. All the previous speakers had referred despairingly to the demolition of dozens of the city’s housing estates – a proce
  
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• Where startups lead, corporates follow – why co-working is the future

  20-04-2016 11:25
  
  Rising office rents make co-working spaces an attractive, and practical, alternative. Could they also foster a ‘magic spark’ among entrepreneurs?Co-working exists for one very clear reason; entrepreneurs are, at their very core, problem solvers. In this case, the problem being tackled is the ever-increasing price of rent. The cost of both personal and office space in London has escalated exponentially in comparison to salaries. Co-working environments present an alternative to expens
  
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• Five things to promote gender equality at work

  20-04-2016 09:01
  
  With women making up just 4% of CEOs in the world’s 500 top companies what can be done to challenge the barriers that prevent women progressing? On the face of it, 2016 hasn’t started out as a good news year for gender equality. First, we learned that gender inequality could cost the global economy a potential $12tn by 2025 unless rectified. Then, on the first anniversary of Shared Parental Leave launching, we discovered that take-up has floundered at 1%.
  The good news is that leader
  
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• Friends Life cut my pension by half, then failed to sort it out

  20-04-2016 08:00
  
  I’ve received a lump sum, but nothing else since NovemberSome £16,000 of the contributions I paid into my Friends Life pension for 20 years appears to have disappeared. In November I filled in the forms to cash in the pension. I opted for a lump sum of £5,483.48 and an annuity of £655. I received the lump sum but discovered that Friends Life was paying a pension of only £31.72 a month. The company admitted it had mistakenly given me an annuity of £331.56, half
  
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• Floating homes - in pictures

  20-04-2016 08:00
  
  From New York to Suffolk, aquaphiles can soak up the views in style with these compact properties Continue reading...
  
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