ITALY"S automotive industry has pioneered many innovations over the years, including developments that have been snapped up by manufacturers in other parts of the world. Fiat has often been at the forefront of turning R&D into a tangible benefit on its production lines to improve efficiency, quality and economy of scale.
SCHOOLS managing their own finances have not delivered savings, claims a teaching union. Chris Keates, of the NASUWT, said: "Local management of schools is failing to produce the economy of scale and value for money taxpayers should be able to expect.
Alone among the leaders of advanced industrial nations, Ireland's two Iron Brians rejected the Keynesian case for a fiscal stimulus to keep the economy moving and set about inflicting a scale of pain from which even the new Tories might flinch momentarily. Since the onset of the credit crunch in mid2008, Dublin has delivered three slash-andburn budgets estimated to have sucked about 5 per cent out of the nation's GDP.
Textbooks may be used to enable students to research the topic. 4 Using this input, and through their own research, students should then be able to complete the second column of the handout by explaining which type of economy of scale is being demonstrated for each of the reasons for the cost reduction. 5 Divide the class into six groups and allocate each group one type of economy of scale and one business.
Westcountry businesses are calling for Energy Secretary Chris Huhne to take a morefar sighted view on solar Feed in Tariffs (FiTs), as they assess the impact of a government review upon the regional economy. The government is set to scale down large-scale industry take-up of the fixed earn-while-you-generate incentive, to safeguard payments to domestic and smallscale schemes from a finite Pounds 900million pot.
DAVID Cameron will warn today that the scale of the challenge facing the British economy is "immense" and requires a long-term "transformation". The Prime Minister will stress again that he has no intention of easing the Government's deficit-reduction measures, saying there are "no shortcuts" to a stronger economy.
THE adoption of academy status would probably not change West Exe Technology College in the short term because West Exe is a product of state education. Thousands of children are corralled into ever- larger schools in the interest of cost-effectiveness. It's called economy of scale and it is not done in the best interests of children. Every study of education has proved that children do better in smaller schools and smaller classes, and yet we keep building them bigger and bigger.
BRITISH banks face huge new losses after lending Pounds 10 billion to the teetering Greek economy. The scale of the City's exposure emerged as Greece edged towards becoming Europe's first "national Northern Rock". Shares in London slumped in early trading on the FTSE-100 today following yesterday's 150-point drop.
PRESSURE was growing on the Westminster coalition last night to clarify whether a pounds 1bn rail upgrade will come to Wales or halt at Bristol. A decision is now expected in the next 10 days on the electrification of the Great Western Line between London and Swansea, seen as key to future economic development in South Wales. The project was announced with much fanfare by Gordon Brown in 2009, when he promised that "work will begin immediately". But little has been done and Tory ministers have questioned whether the scheme is affordable. The decision has now taken on huge political significance, with opposition MPs claiming Wales has already lost a series of potential investments, from the Defence Training College at St Athan to plans for an energygenerating Severn barrage. Welsh Secret...
... would be a "disaster" for the South Wales economy. The partnership, whose members include FTSE 100 c...
THE speed and scale of the economy's slide into recession has taken everyone by surprise, from the Government to families and individuals alike. The impacts of the recession are as wide-ranging as they are worrying; from falling interest rates, to battered investment portfolios and pension pots, from lost salaries and falling house prices to difficulties in obtaining a mortgage and credit.
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