31/10/2011 World Business Report


31/10/2011

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teaching Awards. And we talk about a new documentary

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about Michael Jackson. David Cameron is promising to take

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tough action against local authorities in England that fail to

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deal swiftly with adoption cases. There are wide variations in how

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quickly councils find placements for children in their care. The

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Prime Minister says he will make it easier to adopt.

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Students should only apply for places at university after they

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have received their A-level results. That is a new proposal brought

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forward by UCAS. The changes would mean that children take their A

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levels earlier in the year, apply for university in summer and start

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their courses in October. Nine people have been killed in

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America and more than 3 million homes are without power after an

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early snow storm. One power company in New Jersey says it could be

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Wednesday and will supplies are restored. Passengers on a train in

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Massachusetts were trapped for 13 hours.

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A committee of MPs has criticised the government for refusing to

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reduce the number of ministers. There are currently 121 and many of

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them are expected to be loyal to the government during voting in the

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House of Commons. So I read tax against the

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government and industry have reached disturbing levels. -- cyber

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attacks. Tomorrow, the government is hosting a conference on the

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issue. A BBC investigation has found that

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hundreds of police officers accused of misconduct were able to leave

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the police force rather than face a disciplinary investigation.

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Panorama found that between 2008 and 2010, almost 500 offices in the

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UK accused of misconduct were allowed to leave their jobs.

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Qantas airline has its flights back in the air. It will take several

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days before the backlog of stranded passengers can be cleared. Nearly

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70,000 people were stranded around the world during a dispute between

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management and unions. And Tottenham did well yesterday,

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didn't they? Tottenham are up to fifth in the

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Premier League thanks to a 3-1 win over Queens Park Rangers at White

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Hart Lane. Harry Redknapp's side were dominant in the first half and

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deservedly took the lead in the 20th minute through Gareth Bale.

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They added a second just after the half hour as Rafael van de Vaart

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found himself unmarked in the box and drove the ball past QPR keeper

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Paddy Kenny. Despite being on top, they struggled to add to that score

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and with a little over an hour gone, Rangers' substitute Jay Bothroyd

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headed in from a corner. But Bale was to have the last word. This

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beautiful goal ensured Spurs extended their unbeaten run to

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seven games. We played a great football. We were a joy to watch.

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We have got some smashing players, do you know what I mean? World

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Champion Sebastian Vettel claimed victory in the first ever Indian

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Grand Prix yesterday. That was his 11th victory leaving him just two

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wins short of Michael Schumacher's record for most race wins in a

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season. Before the race, the drivers observed a minute's silence

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in memory of IndyCar's Dan Wheldon and MotoGP's Marco Simoncelli, who

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both died recently in accidents. When the race got under way it was

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business as usual from Vettel. He led the race from start to finish

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with Britain's Jenson Button taking second place. But once again, there

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was a coming together between Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa - the

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sixth time these two drivers have collided this season. Much to the

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horror of the teams and a well- known dodgy Mr Bean, stewards

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pinned the blame on the Brazilian for this latest incident. It has

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led to much bad feeling between the two men, but Hamilton claims that

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he at least has tried to extend the olive branch. I made an effort to

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put my arm around him and say good luck for the race. But I tried to

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overtake and come out of it and we collided. But again, I am really

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sorry for my team. It looked as if he had played his

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last game for Wales at the World Cup, but winger Shane Williams will

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play once more in the famous red jersey before quitting the

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international arena for good. A former World Player of the Year,

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Williams has played 86 times for Wales and is the country's record

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try scorer. He has decided to make his swan song at the Millennium

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Stadium when Wales play Australia on December 3rd. The 34-year-old

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will however continue to turn out for the Ospreys.

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Sergio Garcia has returned to the world's top 20 with victory in the

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Andalucia Masters at Valderrama. Garcia clinched the title by just a

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single shot from his fellow Spaniard, Miguel Angel Jiminez.

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After a three-year drought, it was Garcia's second straight win on the

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European Tour. And the Wimbledon Champion, Petra

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Kvitova, has won the season ending WTA Championship title in Istanbul.

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She defeated Viktoria Azarenka in three sets to claim her sixth title

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of the year and move ahead of Maria Sharapova as world number two.

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Imagine running for more than two hours only to find you have missed

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out on the world record by just four seconds. That is what happened

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to Kenya's Wilson Kipsang in the Frankfurt Marathon. The 29-year-old

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defended his title in a time of two hours, three minutes and 42 seconds

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to complete the second fastest marathon ever. But he said

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afterwards that he was very happy with his time and that he would try

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again next year. I am sure that he said that through gritted teeth.

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Four seconds! Lewis Hamilton says it wasn't his

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fault this time. He has been blamed in the past. He and fully to last

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up often clash in the race's. Shall we just nail this one on the head?

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Every year, we have the puppy debate. Men have a button hole and

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that is why they left -- they have the poppy flowers on that site. But

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women do not have buttonholes and every year, I seem to get it on the

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wrong side. Are there any more complaints?

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(LAUGHS) Every year! A shake-up of the university

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admissions system is being proposed. In the future, students will take

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their A-level exams earlier in the year, apply for universities in

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summer and start their courses in October. Thank you for joining us.

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What is wrong with the current system? I think that it is fair to

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say that the UCAS system has been incredibly successful over 50 years.

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But what we are beginning to see as the number of applicants increases

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every year, there are some changes that suggest that we need to review

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the system. Things like the fact that we place many people through

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the insurance system. Only 10% of our applicants predict their graves

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correctly. -- their A-level results correctly. There have also been

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changes in government policy and the economic climate also means

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that we have to look for efficiencies. How would that

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produce efficiencies if this system were to change? One of the things

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we do at the moment is that we go through the process twice. People

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apply with what they predict they will get and they get a provisional

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offer. Then they do it again in the summertime when they get their real

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results. If you take out the clearance system element of it...?

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Just do it the once. Talk us through the timetable. How would it

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work in the future? What we are trying to do is put forward what we

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believe is a workable process for applying with test results. But

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also one that minimises the change to schools and universities. We ask

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that A-level exams are taken three weeks earlier than at present. That

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is different from in Scotland and Northern Ireland, where that

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happens at different times. We definitely want to hear from

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