EADS new bid for the USAF Contract

admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:35:45 +0000

The European defense contractor EADS, a new bid must be delivered by tanker aircraft for the U.S. Air Force presented. Archrival Boeing, the offer is expected that the Pentagon will soon be delivered. The contract, which has been delayed for a long time, is worth $ 35 billion (EUR 23 billion).

Previously postponed a long-running World Trade Organization (WTO) investigation of whether Boeing receives illegal subsidies from the U.S. government for its decision on the matter. Both the U.S. and the European Union, the other companies have reported to the WTO, alleging illegal subsidies. The WTO has already ruled – at the end of June – that the EU paid illegal subsidies to EADS subsidiary Airbus.

The EU and Airbus criticized the delay of the Boeing decision. “The time span between this case and the United States support for action against Airbus is … in the course of six years of this dispute was executed and the gap is now almost a year has increased,” the EU executive Commission said.

Huge Cash Cuts to Hit Teaching at Universities

admin — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:59:01 +0000

Universities will have to make swingeing cuts after Lord Mandelson abruptly slashed teaching budgets by millions of pounds.
Deparments are expected to close, some degree courses will be axed and students will have to pay higher fees.
Academics condemned the timing of the announcement and said that the plan to claw back £135 million was a kick in the teeth. Universities had already been ordered to find £180 million in savings in the next 18 months.
When savage spending cuts were announced in the Pre-Budget Report, schools were given immunity but universities were not. The cuts meanthat funding per student has fallen in real terms for the first time in ten years.
A review of tuition fees that began last month and will conclude after the general election is expected to recommend that they be raised considerably from the current £3225 a year.
The Business Secretary said that universities should move from the three-year, full-time undergraduate degree model towards a “wider variety of provision”, such as foundation and fast-track degrees. They will be encouraged to focus more on the skills and knowledge demanded by employers rather than on academia for its own sake. Those that disobeyed the Government by taking on too many students this autumn will be penalized in next year’s grants at a rate of £3700 per extra full-time student.
Lord Mandelson made his position clear to the Higher Education Funding Council for England. He said that his predecessor repeatedly made clear the risks of student over-recruitment putting unmanageable pressures on the student support budgets.
The council will inform universities of their individual grants in March.

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EADS new bid for the USAF Contract

Huge Cash Cuts to Hit Teaching at Universities