Susan Rice Dame Susan Rice is another veteran financier who combines banking and business interests with roles on public boards interest in the arts. She is chair of Scottish Water and the Scottish Fiscal Commission. As chief executive, and then chair of Lloyds TSB Scotland, she became the first woman to head a UK clearing bank in 2000. In 2012, she was also the first woman elected as president of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry. She has long been respected by government. In 2009 she chaired the 2020 Group, set up in response to the Climate Change Bill, which aimed to reduce carbon emissions by 42 per cent of 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050. In 2014 the Scottish Government announced it had reached the first target six years early.
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There are fears conditional offers for places at university may have come too late for some pupils sitting tests under the alternative certification process. Senior pupils have been sitting crucial tests without knowing the grades they need to get into university, it has emerged. The development threatens to plunge the education plans of some youngsters into uncertainty and is a further sign of problems within the alternative certification process set up to replace formal exams. University figures said the issue had arisen because January’s “equal consideration” deadline - the point by which the vast majority of applications are submitted - was moved back two weeks amid increased demand on teachers and advisers following pandemic-related school closures.
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TRADE unionists from across Scotland gathered online today as 2021’s STUC Congress kicked off with calls for a “supermajority of workers” to come together as part of a people’s recovery.
The STUC’s 124th annual congress began today with calls for government action to ensure a future for jobs in Scotland, highlighting the efforts of key workers throughout the coronavirus crisis.
STUC general secretary Roz Foyer expressed her gratitude to front-line staff, predominantly low-paid women, who have “risked their own health to keep us safe.”
But she said it is important to continue to push decision-makers to ensure we do not allow “further attacks planned by the Tories and their greedy, greedy corporate friends.”
05-02-2020
AXA XL has appointed a new head of marine, UK & Lloyd’s market, effective 1 July 2021, and global head of hull, effective immediately.
Sundeep Khera, who will fill both roles, is currently head of marine, Asia-Pacific, at AXA XL, based in Singapore. In his new roles, he will be responsible for driving strategic, profitable expansion across the UK & Lloyd’s region and the division’s global hull books of business.
Khera will relocate to London to take up his new roles. He will step down from his role as head of marine, Asia-Pacific in July, to ensure the smooth handover and transition of his current responsibilities.