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Insurance groups face pricing probe
Private Motor, which allows insurers to access competing companies' pricing information. Friendly Society, RBS Insurance and Zurich Insurance, and IT firm SSP, are proposing to address the concerns by committing to no longer…
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'Name and shame' unfair universities
The charity is calling on the Office for Fair Access, charged with ensuring all universities adopt fair admissions procedures, to "name and shame" those that fail to take action. Under plans to raise tuition fees, any… -
Private medical cover is due for a shake-up
The benefits of PMI are that patients get treatment quickly and can choose when and where this treatment takes place, with access to more comfortable, private rooms. For example, you might have access to medical benefits from… -
OFT to investigate private health market
The watchdog also plans to scrutinise consumers' access to information. The Office of Fair Trading said preliminary research had "raised questions" about whether the private healthcare industry, which has been steadily growing… -
Terence Kealey: Leave our funding alone, Lord Browne
The Coalition's critics – labelling the working classes as preternaturally debt-averse – invoke the spectre of social injustice, but the provisions in Browne's report relating to the Office for Fair Access (OFFA), and… -
Savers pay the price for apathy when bonus period ends
The Post Office is another fan of bonus rates and has recently improved various accounts, including the 30-day notice Reward Saver which now pays 2.75 per cent and the instant access Online Saver which offers a healthy 2.9 per… -
Rebellion fears as tuition fees rise to £9,000
Universities will also have to convince the Office for Fair Access that they are taking steps to recruit students from disadvantaged areas before they are allowed to charge higher fees. The move immediately prompted claims… -
Elderly lead fight against freehold fees
Despite the Office of Fair Trading [OFT] finding this transfer fee to be 'unfair', agents continue to write it into contracts, taking advantage of an unregulated sector and many people's lack of access to legal experts in… -
Elite universities fail to attract disadvantaged
Instead, the Office for Fair Access, the universities' admissions watchdog, is suggesting that they waive fees for poorer students altogether – at least for their first year. Sir Martin Harris, director of the Office for… -
Letters: Wiliam Hague
Consequently hundreds of thousands of very poor families in Kabul have no access to free health care. Tying aid to narrow concerns on national security would not only represent an ideologically driven agenda, but would…
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Watching The City's Detectives
Serious fraud prosecutions with access to contemporary evidence and witnesses are almost always tricky, so Neill Blundell, the head of fraud at the law firm Eversheds, concludes that the case against Mr Nadir will be even… -
More Britons being caught up in legal nightmares abroad
He spent 13 months in a notoriously tough prison, with limited access to a lawyer or interpreter, before being granted bail, which forbids him from leaving Ho Chi Min City or talking about his case. Last year the Foreign… -
Bursaries: what you're entitled to at university
A report this month from the Office for Fair Access showed that universities spent £304m, more than one-quarter of their fee income, on bursaries to offset the costs for lower-income students. It can also be viewed during… -
Business Diary: The incompetent insider dealers
While David Cameron was still touring the television studio yesterday, Lagan was unveiling its "Big Society toolkit", which apparently features "tools that reduce bureaucracy, improve compliance and provide the public with… -
A few helpful tips about avoiding online fraud may be just the ticket
The ultimate aim for fraudsters is to get hold of your credit card and password details to access your funds themselves, or to dupe you into handing over money for goods and services that don’t exist,” he says.