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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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  4. Tories offer the dream of home ownership – but do Britons want it any more?
  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
  9. Saving our scallops: Arran reserve reveals marine protection works
  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
  12. Why Bergen-Belsen's 1945 liberation is ingrained in British memory
  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
  18. After the cyclone: why relying on tourism isn't in Vanuatu’s interests
  19. State of imprisonment: out one day, back the next in Queensland
  20. Explainer: how does today's Direct Action reverse auction work?
  21. Let's honour the Anzacs by making two-up illegal again
  22. How the Great War shaped the foundations of Australia's future
  23. We can't get those two hours back – drama works as time unfolds
  24. China economy to slow, hurting Australia: IMF
  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
  33. We must talk to terrorists to restore their humanity – and ours
  34. State of the nation: the immigration numbers game
  35. Conservative housing plan is a blast from the past – amid a 21st-century crisis
  36. Beyond GDP: economic growth may not be enough to get voters on your side
  37. Curing baldness may just be about having enough pluck
  38. Who thinks adults don't fight over (tax) money?
  39. How a mindful approach to computer and smartphone use might just make you happier
  40. The Greens are not a real party of the left – here's why
  41. Overlooked costs of IRS budget cuts will hit taxpayers hardest
  42. Progressive social movements spurred Holocaust consciousness by helping survivors tell their stories
  43. Can Latin America and the United States overcome the past?
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