Education

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5 November 2020

Government urged to give regions greater power over skills and employment

The Government must give UK regional economies greater autonomy over skills and employment to develop grassroot recovery strategies – or risk levelling down the chances of millions, according to...

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8 June 2020

How can employers support financial wellbeing as coronavirus crisis continues?

Given the unprecedented global impact of the coronavirus crisis, much of the workforce has been financially affected. Therefore, providing financial wellbeing has never been so...

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6 May 2020

Upskilling surges in lockdown as people learn new expertise

Online digital skills training provider Circus Street has analysed over 42,000 learners across its global audience from February to March, showing homebound workers are reskilling...

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Most people know nothing about the Modern Slavery Act

Education

31 October 2019

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25 August 2019

Top Universities cities rent 25 percent prices in Student Cities

With supply in Oxford and Cambridge in particularly constrained, house prices look set to continue to rise, which may stifle economic growth as talent finds...

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5 May 2019

Experience vs exams – what do employers really want?

In 2011, Macquarie University in Australia debated whether to get rid of exams completely. They argued that exams fail to develop questioning, independent learners and...

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24 August 2018

GCSE results: Government resits policy branded ‘a disgrace’

Less than a quarter of Maths re-takers passing and school leavers are the biggest losers from crash in apprenticeship opportunities, so the government must respond....

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Treating technical and vocational schools as second best damages UK prospects

Education

17 August 2018

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16 August 2018

Mishandling of levy reforms sees apprenticeship opportunities slump

Thousands of young people receiving their A-level results on Thursday will be disappointed to find that the debt-free choice of a higher or degree level...

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6 July 2018

Employees should take responsibility for their own financial education

Research by Chase de Vere, the independent financial and corporate advisers, in conjunction with Lightbulb, an independent research company, shows that an increasing number of...

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16 June 2018

Later life learning on the increase

The great inventor Henry Ford once said that “anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty” 1, and it’s a message millennials appear...

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Rising concerns over T Level work placements

Education

31 May 2018

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