The Government has re-affirmed its intention to use the education system to reverse the tendency for young people not to be interested in politics.It follows publication of the annual British Social Attitudes survey which found that 34 per cent of teenagers had no interest whatever in politics, a rise of seven percentage points since 1994.
This key social values monitor is co-funded by the DfEE. 

The Cabinet Office has announced plans for a cross-governmental scheme to help small businesses.It is to pilot a new service to small businesses to provide them with a one-stop shop of information on equal opportunities. Smaller businesses often lack the personnel resource to advise them on measures that stamp out discrimination.
The measure is one of a package announced by the Cabinet Office to inject new impetus into the fight against discrimination. 

Jarrar Y F, Aspinwall E MTotal Quality Management, (UK), Mar 99 (10/2)
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Identifies a need to build on the reported success factors of BPR and to learn from the experiences of the practitioners, and reports on an analysis of 79 reported case studies of organizations that have engaged in a re-engineering change programme; details the framework used for the analysis, and records the geographical and sector spread of the organizations involved.