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• Unemployment: what the experts say

  The number of people out of work in the UK has hit 2.5 million for the first time since 1994. Here's what politicians, economists, accountants and business people think.

• Open season on public sector senior salaries

  The pay packets of managers are under the election spotlight, but politicians should study the figures with care

• Distance learning provided training for would-be nurses in remote regions

  

  Remote areas still need nurses – but how can they do their training? The Open University provides a way

• Main parties promise to squeeze public sector but shy away from executive pay

  Business secretary Lord Mandelson has resisted pressure from unions for a high-pay commission that could curb big private sector salaries

• Children in care: Where the she-louts rule

  Winston Smith's blog attacking the care system is in line for political writing award. Here, we feature some extracts and an interview with the author

• 'There was a gap in the market for a PR agency to build communications between public sector organisations and hard-to-reach communities'

  

  Mavis Amankwah, managing director, Rich Visions

• Live Q&A: Switching to the charity sector — advice for changing career

  Working in sales but want to get into fundraising? Our experts — including representatives from Oxfam, The Variety Club and Working for a Charity — explain how this career change, and more, can be achieved

• Uncertainty in the public sector

  As potential cuts loom, the mood of uncertainty currently prevailing among many public-sector workers creates personal distress and does nothing to improve efficiency

• Salary hike for NHS chiefs as nurses get left behind

  

  A report on boardroom pay reveals that senior managers in the NHS received an average pay rise of 6.9% in the last year

• Top tips for switching to a charity job

  Has the continued growth of the charity sector got you thinking about a career change?

• In the week 05/04/10

  British film-makers are being invited to apply for grants from the UK Film Council's new Film Fund — a £15m initiative to aid the development of new projects

• Cuts, what cuts? University vice-chancellors' pay up by 10%

  

  Despite funding cuts of £900m which threaten 14,000 academic posts vice-chancellors pay and benefits rose by 10.6% last year

• How can public sector managers alleviate the anxiety in their organisations?

  It's raining out there and people don't want to be told it's sunny. They want to know where the umbrellas are, says Penny de Valk

• 'A lot of good work goes on in the NHS and we don't talk it up'

  Patrick Geoghegan, chief executive, South Essex Partnership University NHS foundation trust

• Patients not productivity matter in NHS

  Anuradha Arasu: The NHS is not a business and measuring it according to 'productivity' ignores what is really being achieved

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