Rate of young people getting degrees halves
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We must stop the snobbery about apprenticeships | Dan Swords
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Time for action: the UK must act now to improve skills or risk falling further behind in the world
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Apprenticeships: A game changer for the common good?
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Private sector pay set for growth as skills shortage bites
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Manchester needs more devolved powers, says study
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Low-skilled UK workers stuck in ‘vicious cycle’
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Scotland: Skills shortage warning as fewer than 100,000 Scots out of work
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  • Jan 23, 2019
The UK’s success post-Brexit relies on “a new social contract” and the delivery of a world-class technical and professional education system
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  • Jan 22, 2019
Fully fund level 3 to 5 training in ‘skills shortage areas’, AoC proposes
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Major new report on the STEM skills shortage
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  • Jan 17, 2019
Vocational education is key to filling regional skills shortages
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  • Jan 9, 2019
Ageism in the workplace ‘starts at 40’ for women
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  • Dec 21, 2018
Changes to the immigration system means we need to spend more on skills
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You’re hired! Apprentices answer new industry call
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Dstl tackles tech skills shortage
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Apprenticeship levy is no longer complete mystery, say employers
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  • Dec 5, 2018
Britain’s skills failure shows the hollowness of May’s immigration pledge | Polly Toynbee
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Brain drain created north-south divide
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Brexit: EU workers will be offered visas to combat shortage
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Skills priorities and challenges in Scotland: Tom talks to Aileen Ponton for Skills World
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The Centre for Cyber Safety and Education predicts a global shortage of 1.8 million cyber security professionals by 2022
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  • Nov 28, 2018
The “aspirational” apprenticeship: Why government support signals a shift in the perception of apprenticeships
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  • Nov 28, 2018
Growth in demand for skills in the British economy is slowing, survey shows
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  • Nov 15, 2018
Demand for higher skilled roles rise as skills gaps grow
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76% of firms lack confidence they can fill highly skilled roles - CBI NI survey
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  • Nov 7, 2018
By ignoring colleges, the Budget ignored the UK skills crisis
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Ofqual launches consultation on regulating fully-funded digital skills training
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  • Nov 5, 2018
Higher skilled roles rise, as skills gaps grow
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What does the budget mean for FE?
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Local Industrial Strategy Greater Manchester: progress statement
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  • Oct 30, 2018
Budget does not address the big challenges ahead: AoC's response to the Autumn Budget
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  • Oct 29, 2018
To invest in colleges is to invest in the next generation
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  • Oct 19, 2018
Small businesses fear the UK will get ‘left behind’ if the government doesn’t address skills #LoveOurColleges
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  • Oct 17, 2018
SMEs fears for future skilled workforce - colleges best placed to support them
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  • Oct 17, 2018
College funding cuts will deepen skills shortfall, warn businesses ahead of Westminster march
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  • Oct 17, 2018
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  • Oct 12, 2018
How can we make apprenticeships more accessible?
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Pitting universities against colleges won’t deliver skilled workforce
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Pitting universities against colleges won't deliver skilled workforce
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‘The biggest battle in all of this is intellectual snobbery’ - Apprenticeships and Skills Minister
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Apprenticeships: an opportunity to upskill our workforce
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"Lifelong learning revolution" needed to tackle 210,000 worker gap
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  • Sep 20, 2018
Skills shortage within graduates means UK risks getting stuck in driverless car slow lane
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  • Sep 19, 2018
Number of new UK apprenticeships drops 30%
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  • Sep 13, 2018
How technology education needs to change if young people are to get the skills they need for the future
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  • Sep 4, 2018
Why? What? Who? How? Four key questions College leaders must ask when thinking about education technology.
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CBI Scotland and STUC join forces to highlight upskilling and retraining needs ahead of Programme for Government
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  • Aug 30, 2018
Getting a B in science beats an A in English as we need kids to study science, engineering and maths to cover 40,000-worker shortage
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  • Aug 23, 2018
Widening participation and unblocking the skills pipeline
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Employers report skills shortages
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Fewer EU migrants increases skills shortages
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Scotland: Apprentice women are in decline
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  • Aug 9, 2018
Strong growth for SME manufacturers, but labour & skills shortages bite
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600,000 tech job vacancies costing UK economy £63 billion a year
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  • Jul 31, 2018
Moving up or moving out: skills for getting unstuck
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  • Jul 17, 2018
Partnerships between HE/FE essential to tackling skills shortages and social mobility, says Middlesex University
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  • Jun 29, 2018
Digital skills crucial to the success of fourth industrial revolution
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  • Jun 28, 2018
Ireland: Skills shortage in construction sector
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  • Jun 26, 2018
Sharper focus needed on skills crucial to UK productivity
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  • Jun 22, 2018
Helping businesses retain returning mums
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  • Jun 18, 2018
‘Government urgently needs to boost lower level skills training to be ready for Brexit’, says new AELP policy submission
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  • Jun 15, 2018
Need to know: what’s in London’s skills strategy?
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  • Jun 6, 2018
How to encourage more young women to pursue careers in STEM
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Exporters hampered by shortage of skills
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  • May 25, 2018
The importance of teaching digital skills
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  • May 9, 2018
Removing barriers to women in engineering
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  • May 8, 2018
Apprenticeships are not just for the young and inexperienced
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Avoiding another apprenticeships crisis
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  • May 4, 2018
Education Committee launches inquiry into the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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  • May 1, 2018
Lord Agnew responds re question about a lack of flexibility around the apprenticeship levy
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  • Apr 30, 2018
England has 'lost its way' in vocational education, warns new report
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Apprenticeship schemes to provide stability in uncertain times
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Wales is struggling to get pupils to study science, technology, engineering and maths, minister warns
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  • Apr 13, 2018
The role of apprenticeships in the UK economy | Letters
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  • Apr 12, 2018
Can degree apprenticeships plug the tech skills gap?
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  • Apr 5, 2018
National Apprenticeship Week: why more young women should consider a STEM apprenticeship
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Edge puts £1million up for grabs
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  • Mar 29, 2018
Apprenticeships help boost workforce capabilities
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  • Mar 29, 2018
Schools are failing to provide the workers we need, warn British industries
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  • Mar 28, 2018
King’s Commission on London proposes solutions to the city’s complex challenges
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  • Mar 19, 2018
Teenage hackers recruited by GCHQ
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Royal College of Music head criticises decline in provision in schools
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Shaping the new retraining scheme
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  • Mar 13, 2018
Why degree apprenticeships are vital to the local economy
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Government joins unions and industry to thrash out a ‘National Retraining Scheme’
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  • Mar 5, 2018
The ‘huge reform’ yet to prove that it is up to the job
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Digital skills crisis? It’s not just about the economy
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  • Feb 22, 2018
The myth of AI – technologies that are changing work
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Good time to move jobs as labour and skills shortages push up wages
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  • Feb 8, 2018
UUK and CBI to look at decline in part-time students and future skills needs
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  • Feb 6, 2018
Give apprenticeships time, and they’ll futureproof our workforce
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Universities must offer ‘earn as you learn’ degree apprenticeships or face cuts to funding, senior Tory demands
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National Education Service is solution to skills crisis, says Labour
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  • Feb 5, 2018
University students receive 'paltry returns' for their academic degrees, says Tory MP
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FE and social justice: Top six education committee chair recommendations
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Britain must end 'obsession' with university degrees, says influential Tory MP
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End the 'obsession' with academic degrees, says senior Tory
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Lord Watson: In the age of AI and automation, lifelong learning is an economic necessity
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  • Feb 1, 2018
Disadvantaged pupils achieve lower grades in north than in London
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Britain desperately needs a functioning apprenticeship system
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  • Jan 25, 2018
We must act now to prevent the skills gap becoming unbridgeable
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Why university is not the only option
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  • Jan 24, 2018
How can we ensure the Year of Engineering is a success?
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  • Jan 22, 2018
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  • Jan 19, 2018
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Government brands 2018 ‘Year of Engineering’ in bid to inspire young people
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  • Jan 17, 2018
Skills for the North: Devolving technical education to cities
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  • Jan 17, 2018
Government efforts to boost UK's tech and science "STEM" skills are "muddled", warns National Audit Office
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Britain’s ‘oversupply’ of biology graduates risks skill shortage for vital jobs, report reveals
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  • Jan 17, 2018
To build a better skills system we need a strong core
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  • Jan 15, 2018
Support for apprentice levy goes up in flames
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Widening skills gap ‘biggest drag on business’
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  • Jan 10, 2018
Putting the Careers Strategy into practice
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Cyber security wages are set to soar amid a skills shortage
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Critics of degree apprenticeships need a reality check
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Britain’s skills record has hindered, not helped, our productivity drive. That needs to change
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  • Dec 5, 2017
Is there enough respect for further and technical education?
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  • Dec 4, 2017
Four key challenges raised by the UK’s new industrial strategy
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  • Nov 27, 2017
Government unveils £725million plan to tackle productivity puzzle and transform UK into world´s most innovative nation
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UK industrial strategy aims to tackle productivity problems
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  • Nov 27, 2017
Theresa May seeks to break Brexit clouds with industrial strategy
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  • Nov 27, 2017
Government launches industrial strategy
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  • Nov 27, 2017
National retraining partnership outlined in new industrial strategy
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  • Nov 27, 2017
Big fall in apprentices blamed on red tape and higher costs
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  • Nov 24, 2017
Edge comment on the 2017 autumn statement
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  • Nov 22, 2017
Apprenticeships need equal billing with university study
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David Smith: mind the skills gap, or we really will struggle
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  • Oct 22, 2017
Scotland: Refugee talent can plug skills gap, claims charity
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  • Oct 16, 2017
Government cannot tackle the issue of digital exclusion alone, says Digital Minister Matt Hancock
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Sir James Dyson vows to tackle shortfall of female engineers with new university
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Government's digital strategy is on road to nowhere, says Lord Baker
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More than just a competition: WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017
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Driving apprenticeships a question of integrity
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Is apprenticeship learning a thing of the past?
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  • Aug 15, 2017
Is post-school education funding fit for purpose? House of Lords committee to inquire
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  • Jul 25, 2017