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Focus on traineeships as clock ticks down to scheme launch

The long-awaited traineeship scheme was in the spotlight at an Association of Colleges conference in Central London last Tuesday....

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The right ingredients for a job

A catering and hospitality student has proved that he can stand the heat in the kitchen by landing his...

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VQ Day – Round-up

  Mark Harper MP, Aaron Freeman, National VQ Learner of the Year, and Skills Minister Matthew Hancock VQ Day...

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Employability lessons for traineeships

An OCR pilot in Kent is offering a group of 16 to 19-year-olds the same three-pronged approach as the...

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Opinion

Cultivating a change in careers provision

Millions of people today work in jobs that didn’t exist when their parents left education. It’s a new world...

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Opinion

An investment that is well worth making

As a leader of a college judged outstanding by Ofsted, I was recently asked what pressures I faced from...

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Opinion

Bridging the skills gap through partnership

Barclays is determined that there should be more apprenticeships and that young people have the skills they need to...

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Opinion

From Cinderella to Alice in Wonderland

Establishing and maintaining structural and cultural change in FE is a huge task, a task that needs not only...

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Opinion

How to make your career blossom

Several past WorldSkills UK competitors were among the gold medal winners at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, writes Joseph...

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