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Corbyn: End 'grammar school attitude' to vocational study
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Ireland: ‘Negative attitude’ blamed for drop in apprenticeships
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Parents slightly more likely to advise uni than apprenticeship
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The Baker clause: One year on
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Pupils ‘steered away from vocational courses over funding fears’
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Social Mobility Commission to relaunch with £2m research budget
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'Powerful' message on technical education welcomed by FE sector
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  • Dec 4, 2018
Only schools with ‘excellent’ arts provision should be rated outstanding, says charity
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Only schools with ‘excellent’ vocational provision should be rated outstanding, says charity
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Schools should offer creative and technical subjects to warrant top Ofsted rating, says report
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Slow progress on flagship Scottish education policy
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Government unveils secure school plans
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DfE accused of wasting public money with new £10m ‘register of external experts’
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Association for Project Management award first ever charterships (CHpp)
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Middle class parents have 'snobbish' and 'outdated' attitudes to vocational studies
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More students considering apprenticeships and full time employment
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ASCL comment on Toby Young report
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Convenience is key: Flexible learning drives in-work training appeal
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Skills minister Anne Milton leaves MPs ‘staggered’ by admitting she wouldn’t encourage her children to study first T-levels in 2020
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  • Jul 18, 2018
Hands-on, career-focused qualifications are more important than ever before
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Skills minister: I would advise my own children to 'leave it a year' before taking T-Levels
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  • Jul 17, 2018
Education Minister would tell her children 'leave it a year' before taking new qualifications she is introducing
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Education minister would make her children ‘leave it a year’ before taking new T-level qualifications
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Britain must stop pressuring young people to go university to get an Oxford degree, expert warns
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  • Jul 12, 2018
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Schools 'shun jobs and apprenticeships' in drive to get more pupils to university
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Skills Minister highlights new provider access law for schools
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‘Apprenticeships equal to university places’ says SNP MSP
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Chartered Institute for Further Education accepts 12th member
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Vocational education gaining popularity in Scottish schools, finds report
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Milton Keynes College joins Collab Group
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Don't make young people choose between academic and technical pathways, report tells government
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Strip former polys of university status, says ex-minister: Lord Adonis brands decision to 'rebadge' institutions as a 'very serious mistake'
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Former polytechnics should lose university status, says Adonis
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How a local school in Whitby hopes to save Britain's fishing industry 
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AELP urges government to ensure apprenticeship reforms don't hit social mobility
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If the Government remains committed to UTCs it needs to do more to help them establish themselves and thrive says new research
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Baroness Wolf: 'Apprenticeships and degrees can never be equal'
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Labour manifesto plans for FE and skills unveiled
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In this week's Tes Further: an interview with Sir Frank McLoughlin on FE's new leadership programme
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Institute for Apprenticeships unveils route panel chairs
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Government blocks move to give child benefit to apprentices
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Apprenticeship procurement 'paused', ESFA announces
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Ofqual unveils corporate plan 2017 to 2020
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  • Mar 31, 2017
Drop in international college students blamed on UK's 'unfriendly' image
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  • Mar 31, 2017
Judge apprenticeships by outcomes not starts, say MPs
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  • Mar 31, 2017
Education for a career must take precedence over training for a job
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Lords vote in favour of more financial support for apprentices
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  • Mar 29, 2017
More than 1,300 apprenticeship providers get green light
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  • Mar 14, 2017
FE policy too 'complex and changeable', report says
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  • Mar 14, 2017
Scotland's universities accused of prejudice against vocational education by top government adviser
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  • Mar 12, 2017
Technical education: going beyond parity of esteem
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  • Mar 10, 2017
Apprenticeships – what goes around comes around?
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  • Mar 10, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 10 March 2017
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  • Mar 10, 2017
Budget: T levels will raise the status of technical education, says chancellor
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  • Mar 8, 2017
Budget 2017: £320m for new free schools 'fails to address majority needs'
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  • Mar 8, 2017
Does the 2017 Budget help extend opportunity to all of our young people?
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  • Mar 8, 2017
Institutes of Technology and the family of education providers
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  • Mar 8, 2017
2017 Budget won’t tackle funding crisis in our schools
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  • Mar 7, 2017
'Delighted': FE sector welcomes additional funding for T levels
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  • Mar 6, 2017
Sainsbury’s Delivery: Technical education, employer leadership and careers guidance
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  • Mar 6, 2017
New 'T-levels' to replace thousands of post-16 vocational qualifications
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  • Mar 5, 2017
Vocational training shake-up 'most ambitious since A-levels'
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  • Mar 5, 2017
Hammond to spend £500m a year on technical education reforms
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  • Mar 5, 2017
Ofqual conference 2017 - presentations from the day
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  • Mar 3, 2017
Theresa May: 'All colleges should be reaching towards TES FE Awards standards'
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  • Mar 1, 2017
New careers advice Bill reaches second reading
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  • Feb 28, 2017
Clearing the path for careers advice
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  • Feb 28, 2017
Nic Dakin MP: It should not be unnecessarily difficult for students to access information about their future
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  • Feb 28, 2017
MasterChef winner fully committed to college sector
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  • Feb 26, 2017
In this week's TES Further: Why expanding colleges mustn’t lose their heart
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  • Feb 24, 2017
Lord Baker scored a victory for FE
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  • Feb 24, 2017
Schools could be forced to allow colleges access to students
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  • Feb 23, 2017
Bid to force ‘hostile’ schools to promote technical education succeeds
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  • Feb 23, 2017
Rising to the challenge
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  • Feb 23, 2017
The Guardian view on vocational education: choice at 14 is not working
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  • Feb 19, 2017
Skills 2030: Why the adult skills system is failing to build an economy that works for everyone
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  • Feb 18, 2017
College strike looms as union enters dispute
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  • Feb 13, 2017
Michael Gove: UTCs have failed
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  • Feb 10, 2017
Government to force councils to publicise UTCs as Gove admits policy has gone "Pete Tong"
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  • Feb 10, 2017
The training revolution
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  • Feb 7, 2017
'Transition period' is needed for the apprenticeship levy, says CBI
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  • Feb 6, 2017
Real impact of apprenticeship levy will be the recruitment and upskilling of middle and senior management
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  • Feb 6, 2017
Corbyn backs UCU campaign for 15,000 more FE teachers
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  • Jan 31, 2017
Carlisle College to join NCG
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  • Jan 31, 2017
Vocational education in an advanced economy should not be removed from other pathways
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  • Jan 30, 2017
Cable warns of 'appalling' record on skills
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  • Jan 24, 2017
UCU response to government technical education plans
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  • Jan 23, 2017
Theresa May to unveil boost to vocational education system
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  • Jan 22, 2017