A new government report shows that nearly one in four universities failed to meet their own targets to recruit more poor students last year...

News that the General Medical Council (GMC) is planning an induction programme for doctors who are new to the UK has been welcomed by health...

The country's three largest trade unions — Unite, Unison, and the GMB — joined the Fire Brigades Union in announcing they will ballot th...

very eloquently written by John Wight Just as the explosion of social unrest that has engulfed working class communities all over London a...

The Government is planning huge changes in the NHS.  In the past few weeks it’s had to amend some of its proposals, because of opposition fr...

When hundreds of thousands of public sector workers go on strike, the government should take note. These are not the ‘militants’, the ‘extre...

Protests have been called across the country in response to the arrest of leading Palestinian activist Sheik Raed Salah in London. He had ...

Some sad news. After a long illness the peace campaigner Brian Haw has died. Brian was the instigator on June 2 2001 of the peace camp oppos...

The struggle for women's rights in Saudi Arabia put down an important marker on Friday when at least 29 women defied the country's d...

In a sign of growing religious intolerance in Holland, the Dutch parliament is set to introduce a law which will essentially ban kosher and ...