The next UK government must boost investment in skills training to accommodate a looming increase of 150,000 more students seeking higher education by 2030 in England, educational experts have warned. In a report to be published this week The Association of Colleges, which represents technical colleges, will argue that extra demand caused by a short-term
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Flutter has backtracked on a plan to replace long-standing auditor KPMG with Deloitte after the gambling group’s decision to list its shares in New York freed it from independence rules that would have required it
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Paul Weightman is no stranger to high-profile corporate scraps. The 62-year-old Australian, whose audacious poaching of more than 20 senior executives from asset manager Barings last month has already sparked litigation, spent 20 years running
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This year is starting to have something of a 2021-ish vibe to it. Bitcoin is booming, an old American man looks likely to hand leadership of the free world to another old American man, Elon
The Russian air force is stepping up its use of Soviet-era weapons that have been retrofitted for 21st-century warfare and are pounding Ukrainian forces, pulverising towns and giving Moscow an advantage on the battlefield. “The experience of the past months and weeks shows that the enemy has significantly increased aircraft activity, using guided air bombs
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US, UK and Australia are to begin talks on bringing new members into Aukus as Washington pushes for Japan to be involved in the security pact aimed as a deterrent against China. The Aukus
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court in 2009, he said that when she “ascends those marble steps to assume her seat . . . America will have taken another important step towards realising the
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Joe Biden has almost $100mn more in his election war chest than Donald Trump, the president’s campaign has said, giving him a big money lead over his rival seven months ahead of the election. Biden
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US has warned of “significant consequences” if Chinese companies provide support for Moscow’s war against Ukraine in one of the sharpest messages it has yet delivered to Beijing. Following discussions in Guangzhou on
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer, an FT contributing editor, is chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts and former chief economist at the Bank of England Over a decade ago, Greece faced a searing financial crisis. As a
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Croydon was never cool. But growing up there I didn’t realise the extent of its sad-sack reputation until I crossed its boundary line. Peers would sneer about the postcode and nod sympathetically when I
The accounting firm picked to audit Donald Trump’s social media venture has had repeated run-ins with regulators and faced criticism for its failure to live up to professional standards in the US and Canada, according to a review of public filings. BF Borgers has become one of the most prolific auditors of US public companies
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. So far, the highest-grossing films of 2024 are a sequel derived from an old novel (Dune: Part Two), the fourth in a series (Kung Fu Panda 4) and, in Godzilla x Kong: The New
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Boeing has disclosed a $32.8mn pay award for outgoing chief executive Dave Calhoun, a 45 per cent increase from the previous year even as the aircraft manufacturer struggles to contain a crisis of confidence in
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Cryptocurrencies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A New York jury has found Terraform Labs and its co-founder Do Kwon liable for defrauding cryptocurrency investors as part of a scheme that allegedly triggered a $40bn loss in market value. The civil verdict, handed
Following another better-than-expected jobs report, U.S. Treasuries sold off and were volatile throughout the session leading municipals to see a weaker, but more muted tone than their taxable counterparts. Equities rallied. The March employment report sent “the bond market in panic mode over Fed cuts being delayed,” according to Bryce Doty, senior portfolio manager/vice president at
California lawmakers fine-tuned their March budget proposal, cutting spending by $17.3 billion ahead of formal discussions to get a head start on difficult decisions amid a record deficit. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Senate President Pro Tempore Mike McGuire and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas announced they reached an agreement Thursday, providing specifics about how they plan to
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Middle Eastern politics & society myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The leader of Lebanon’s Hizbollah militant group said that the strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus this week widely blamed on Israel marked a “turning point” and vowed that Iran’s response
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How many people make for a good debate? The closer we get to the expected timing of a first US interest rate cut, the hotter a topic it becomes — and the more individuals weigh