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With the Chancellor’s latest announcement boosting apprenticeships, Kiran Kapur, CEO of Cambridge Marketing College (@CMCpointsofview), suggests that uncertainty over career prospects is pushing people to take steps to improve their employability. CM...

@dwrichardson999 - Discussing the unique features of the block apprenticeship system @Exclaimer   The global leader in email signature management solutions, Exclaimer, has been running its apprenticeship scheme for just over 2 years, p...

Cash is king, is an often-used statement in the commercial world. And it is true, businesses do not fail because of lack of profit but due to a lack of cash. The crunch arrives when the wages cannot be paid. It is possible for a business to be making...

A total of 514,020 people of all ages from across the UK have now applied through @UCAS_Online this year for a place on an undergraduate course – up 1.6% on this point in 2019, and reversing a fall in UK applicants from earlier this year. Today (9 Ju...

New @HEPI_news report on China - UK Universities and China - Universities should redouble their engagement with China while reaffirming their commitment to free intellectual enquiry  The Higher Education Policy Institute have published a ne...

The Welsh Government will provide an additional £29 million to schools to boost support for learners at crucial stages in their education from September. 600 extra teacher and 300 teaching assistant posts over the 2020-21 school year Focus on suppor...

With the current economic situation, the skills agenda has never been more important so there were some welcome announcements in today’s speech by the Chancellor. The incentives for businesses to revisit and build talent strategies are particularly i...

Facing the jobs crisis - Just Launched: Employment Outlook 2020 Unemployment has soared in the @OECD area since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Policymakers have taken action to safeguard workers and firms, but as the coronavirus c...

On Wednesday afternoon after the Chancellor’s speech, @AELPUK had very constructive discussions with the Treasury about the jobs and skills plan.  These confirmed that the Prime Minister and Rishi Sunak are totally committed to improving young p...

Property consultant @Eddisons has secured £30m to improve buildings at 76 academy schools across the UK under the Government’s Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) programme. New funding for the latest round of schools projects in Yorkshire will include ...