A Scottish business school has been given nearly half a million pounds to provide free training for small and medium-sized businesses.
Business insurance customers may be interested to learn that Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen has been given a £411,000 grant from the European Social Fund to improve skills in the sector and boost the economy.
The business school has been given the money for its Business Skills For Growth project, which is backed by Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce, Aberdeen city council, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and LearnDirect, according to the Herald.
Also this week, the Conservatives have claimed that small business insurance customers have been hit by £2.4 billion worth of taxes over the last four years due to the abolition of the zero per cent rate of corporation tax.
Gordon Brown got rid of the rate when he was chancellor of the exchequer in 2006, meaning more than 250,000 business insurance customers are now forced to pay 21 per cent in taxes, costing them an average £3,483 each.
