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Manifesto Check: Conservatives fudge the numbers on apprenticeships

  • Written by The Conversation
imageMore apprentices but are they better off?Ben Birchall/PA

Welcome to The Conversation’s Manifesto Check, where academics from across the UK subject each party’s manifesto to unbiased, expert scrutiny.

The Conservative manifesto skates over some uncomfortable truths about the development of apprenticeship during their last five years in...

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Shipping oil by rail is booming. Technology can make it safer

  • Written by The Conversation
imageThe National Transportation Safety Board made an 'urgent' recommendation to improve the safety of oil-carrying rail cars. Rick Wilking/Reuters

The Energy Information Administration recently released a map that reflects a massive change to our economy few people appreciate.

The graphic, shown below, shows the latest data on crude oil-by-rail...

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  5. Labour manifesto: a contradictory commitment to devolution
  6. High Court forces ICAC to drop Cunneen inquiry and review others
  7. Six challenges facing Australia’s medical research sector
  8. Two-for-one: a good new High Court judge, and a woman to boot
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  10. Game of Thrones pirates offer a useful lesson in TV money making
  11. Sexology exhibition sets out to lay bare truths but it's a repressed affair
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  13. Manifesto Check: Labour's immigration policies are led by public opinion, not evidence
  14. Roar of China's 'Great Cannon' heard across the internet
  15. Why the British election should be more like a student ballot
  16. EU initiative risks turning Roma into entertainers, not real people with human rights
  17. Small business win in a budget with 'fair' savings: Abbott
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  20. Explainer: how does today's Direct Action reverse auction work?
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  22. How the Great War shaped the foundations of Australia's future
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  25. The Tax white paper - only good for fish and chips now?
  26. Manifesto Check: Labour ready to go green, but remains grey on detail
  27. If Cameron wants a property owning democracy, he has to support the mansion tax
  28. Manifesto Check: Green Party has no clear vision on the EU
  29. Pledge-filled manifestos can't solve chronic image problems
  30. Green Party opts for quantity with huge manifesto wishlist
  31. Conservative manifesto launch: Cameron shines, but dark clouds are on the horizon
  32. Manifesto Check: stacking up Labour's deficit reduction plans
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  34. State of the nation: the immigration numbers game
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  36. Beyond GDP: economic growth may not be enough to get voters on your side
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