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Prince visits Blackpool and The Fylde College on Queen’s Diamond Jubilee tour

Students were treated to a Royal visit when Prince Edward dropped into Blackpool and The Fylde College. The Prince...

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News

SFA ‘strongly encourage’ 12 month minimum

Providers are being urged to introduce new apprenticeship duration requirements immediately. The Skills Funding Agency is calling on existing...

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News

Holt heads-up employer-led review of apprenticeships

Social entrepreneur and jeweller Jason Holt is to take charge of an employer-led review into how businesses can be...

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News

Adult Basic Skills qualifications to be scrapped

Basic skills qualifications in numeracy and literacy for adults will cease to be funded for new starts from August....

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News

Banks ‘invest’ in more than 1,500 apprentices

Three high street banks are launching new apprenticeship schemes to try and help young people launch a career in...

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FE Week Reporter
Opinion

International lessons on teaching and training

As the dust settles from National Apprenticeship Week 2012, surely all eyes now are on the next big event...

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News

Childcare supported for at least one more year

A scheme which supports thousands of teenage parents in further education has been reprieved – at least for a...

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FE Week Reporter
Opinion

WorldSkills UK – The Skills Show launches

If you were one of the many thousands of visitors to WorldSkills London 2011 last October it will come...

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Opinion

Where next for 14-19 vocational qualifications?

The Department for Education’s recent cull of more than 3,000 vocational qualifications taught in schools sparked a media response...

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