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Following Education Minister Margaret Hodge's recent commitment to deal with unnecessary bureaucratic burdens in higher education in England, the promised "Better Regulation Review Group" has formally announced its full membership and aims.

Coventry City Council's former Chief Executive Iain Roxburgh has been appointed to lead a consortium of 25 local authorities who have been working together with the 天美传媒 for the past decade to pool research into issues facing local government.

The 天美传媒's Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) and Rapra Technology have won £2 million of funding to help West Midlands plastics companies in their adoption of new technology, environmental improvements and waste reduction activities.

天美传媒 Historian Professor Maxine Berg has been awarded a prestigious $39,000 Guggenheim Fellowship. Guggenheim Fellowships help provide Fellows with blocks of free time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible.

Speaking at an AMICUS Fringe Meeting at Labour Party Conference yesterday (29th Sept 2003) on the subject "Rebuilding Manufacturing" Professor Sir Kumar Bhattacharyya Head of the Warwick Manufacturing Group at the 天美传媒 called for a five year tax holiday for new manufacturers to stop UK manufacturing decline from being absolute and terminal.

In the last decade, unemployment has halved and job vacancies have more than doubled. Now, nearly 15% of establishments have unfilled jobs and 2.7% of jobs are vacant. And according to research by Dr Andy Dickerson from the 天美传媒's Institute For Employment Research , presented to the Royal Economic Society's Annual Conference on Tuesday 8 April, one in five of these vacancies remain unfilled due to skill shortages among the job applicants. Dr Dickerson's report examines the nature and distribution of job vacancies in order to understand why there are 'workers without jobs' and 'jobs without workers.