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Guest blog: A beginners’ guide to creating Apps

Monday, January 16th, 2012

As the smartphone and tablet PC markets continue to expand, the app market is ripe for SMEs to exploit. Author of the Small Business Guide to Apps David Howell, has penned an exclusive blog for fwmf.com providing a great starter guide for the uninitiated.

‘Colleges pose cut-price threat to the High Street’

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

Fears are growing that colleges’ increasing emphasis on vocational courses that offer cut-price services direct to the consumer could undermine established businesses.

Young mentors to pass on advice

Friday, January 13th, 2012

Young professionals from more than 30 industries will give advice to people from the age of 14 to 20 in an event hosted by a children’s education charity.

Survey reveals ageist attitudes

Friday, January 13th, 2012

Age-related discrimination and stereotyping remains “firmly embedded” in British society, according to a new government report.

Gove backs school technology reform

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Michael Gove today will today announce an overhaul of technology in schools amid a warning that pupils are currently “bored out of their minds” by the subject.

A home is within reach if you’re in the right place

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Property for first-time buyers is more affordable today than at any point in the past eight years – provided they live in the right part of Britain and can put together a substantial deposit.

Frozen out of the mortgage market and forced to pay a punishing rent

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Falling prices mean that getting on the housing ladder has at last become more than a dream, but it depends on location and finding that vital deposit.

Plan to offer young entrepreneur loans

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Young entrepreneurs could be offered Government loans to help them start up a business along similar lines to the loans which help fund students through university, Prime Minister David Cameron said today.