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Northern Ireland falls in ranking on PwC’s Women in Work Index. Pictured is Cat McCusker, regional market leader at PwC Northern Ireland

NI falls from first to fourth in the UK for female gender equality at work

A group of experts have proposed changes to how Stormont operates, including changes to the the ‘cross-community’ voting system; changes to the nomination process for first and deputy first ministers; and the proposal of new mechanisms to encourage business and civil society to participate in the decision-making process

Letter: The ‘modest measures’ offering a solution to Stormont impasse

Letters to editor

Letter: Some immigration is a good thing, the question is how much of it

Claire Hanna

Businesses ‘should highlight protocol benefits’

Paul Murnaghan, NI Chamber President

A vision for education in the 21st century

Martin Flynn, OCN NI Chief Executive

Higher skills ambition needed for NI

This is what one MP had to say about the tax situation regarding Netflix (Photo: Shutterstock)

An MP says that Netflix is taking UK taxpayers ‘for a ride’ by not paying its ta...

Economic impact warning

UK should maintain '˜closest possible' ties with EU - OECD

The OECD said the world economy was on course for a modest pick up but that the UKs exit from the EU remained a major risk for the UK economy

UK economy to slow amid Brexit fears and spending squeeze - OECD predicts

PM should ignore this OECD critic of academic selection

Nigel Smyth

Young people likely to be hardest hit by Brexit - CBI

The OECD has cut its forecast for UK growth this year to 1.7%, down from 2.2%

Brexit '˜would have huge impact and spark turmoil global markets'

Serious economic experts back Remain

Growth has slowed as output falls

Economic growth could be hit by Brexit warns Osborne

Anti-biotic resistance high in children, study finds

Antibiotic resistance '˜high in children'

Central to the OECD project is a model which purports to compute ability estimates which are independent of the test items taken by young people

PISA assessments are flawed

As someone who has expressed profound concerns about PISA ranks in the past, the recent revelation of errors in the rankings awarded to Northern Ireland in 'literacy' and 'numeracy' come as no surprise.

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