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1 month ago | 
thetimes.com | Steven Swinford |Nicola Woolcock |Anna Dowell
Universities will be “named and shamed” if they give vice-chancellors bumper pay packages while delivering poor outcomes for students. Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, is planning to publish league tables detailing pay at universities where significant numbers of graduates do not go on to good jobs or further education. She is concerned that some universities have become unaccountable “ivory towers” with ever-increasing salaries while providing poor value for money for students.
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2 months ago | 
thetimes.com | Anna Dowell |Oliver Wright |Tom Saunders
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Mar 21, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | Anna Dowell |Jack Simpson
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | Chris Smyth |Anna Dowell
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Yennah Smart |Anna Dowell
The livestock industry produces a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions, so it makes sense that people have begun to eat more plant-based alternatives. But while these reduce meat consumption, how much do they help the environment? How well do you know the cost, nutritional value and environmental impact of your diet?
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Nicola Woolcock |Anna Dowell |Yennah Smart
Top universities are paying vice-chancellors an average of more than £400,000 a year despite calls for restraint in their salaries. Universities will come under growing pressure from the government to freeze or cut vice-chancellor salaries to compensate for tuition fees rising for the first time in years.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Tom Calver |Joey D’Urso |Narottam Medhora |Anna Dowell
For once, maybe the polls got it right: this was, as many predicted, one of the closest US presidential election races in years. Yet with more than half of votes counted, Kamala Harris’s path to election victory has narrowed considerably. With Donald Trump winning North Carolina and Georgia, Harris must win the three northern rust belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to stand any chance of the presidency. That looks increasingly unlikely.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Rachel Mortimer |Anna Dowell
The chancellor is said to be planning sweeping changes to inheritance tax in her inaugural budget on Wednesday, in a raid that could raise billions for the government. Families are handing over a growing share of their estates to the taxman every year thanks to frozen allowances and years of house price growth and high inflation. One in eight people are expected to have a taxable estate by 2032, according the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), a think tank.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Alistair Dawber |Joey D’Urso |Anna Dowell
There’s a new job that Donald Trump intends to create if he retakes the White House next month: secretary of cost-cutting. “Elon wants to do that,” the former president said in a Fox News interview on Sunday. It was the latest confirmation that, barely three months after Elon Musk endorsed Trump for the presidency, the world’s richest person has become a vital part of his re-election bid.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
thetimes.co.uk | Anna Dowell
At first it may seem a strange idea — taking staples of the British kitchen cupboard and turning them into ice cream. However, the concept has proved popular, says Anya Hindmarch, a fashion designer who usually turns her hand to accessories. At weekends in summer, queues run around the block at her “concept store”, the Ice Cream Project, in Belgravia, central London.
