Female Jobless Reaches 25-Year High

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 'Bearing The Brunt': Female Unemployment Hits 25-Year High The number of women out of work in the UK has reached its highest level in 25 years despite overall figures dropping for the first time in a year. The country's jobless rate for the first three months to February 2012 dropped by 35,000, figures on Wednesday showed, but the number of women out of work rose by 8,000 to 1.14m - the highest figure since November 1987. Read the full story here Take A Risk For The Sake Of Your People Breivik Refuses To Answer Questions About London 'Knights Templar' Phone Hacking: Files On Four Journalists Passed To Prosecutors David Gilroy Given Life Sentence For Murdering Lover In Televised Hearing Aung San Suu Kyi To Visit Britain In First Overseas Trip For 24 Years BLOG POSTS Martin Davidson: We Must Engage With China Through Culture This year's London Book Fair is a sign of China's increasing international engagement and visibility. Elsewhere, by the end of August 2011, 353 Confucius Institutes had been established in 104 countries. There is no reason to think that this international cultural and educational expansion won't continue - the Chinese government aims to increase that total to one thousand by 2020. How things have changed. Gordon Brown: Education Without Borders Every child has a right to an education. Yet millions of children are living in countries where that right is systematically violated as a result of armed conflict. Victoria Coren: UKIPT PokerStars Tournament Update Well, I didn't win a bean at the UKIPT Nottingham tournament but - as predicted - I had a great time. It just had a terrific atmosphere. Colin Stanbridge: Air Passenger Duty Risks Keeping People Away From The Olympics Today marks 100 days until the start of the Olympics. While it seems likely the number of tourists coming to London will enjoy an upturn in 2012, there are emerging signs that thanks in part to the UK's Air Passenger Duty (APD) others will be staying away. David Bull: How Can Aid be Working When Millions Still Starve? With a hunger crisis sweeping across the Sahel affecting eight African countries and putting the fragile existences of a million children in jeopardy now may seem a strange time to be talking about the remarkable progress for the world's poorest children that has been achieved over the past 20 years.

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