England falls in reading league
News | Thursday November 29th, 2007The reading performance of children in England has fallen from third to 19th in the world in a major assessment.
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Tesco’s Employment Partnership creates jobs for long term unemployed
News | Tuesday November 27th, 2007Peter Hain meets former claimants who successfully found work through the Local Employment Partnership
QIA and CEL to create new organisation for Leadership & Innovation in FE
News | Tuesday November 27th, 2007Quality Improvement Agency and Centre of Excellence in Leadership to creat new organisation in April
Catching learners’ attention
News | Tuesday November 27th, 2007Fishing isn’t just a sleepy hobby by a river bank, there’s geography, literacy, numeracy and science involved. Angling – one of the country’s most popular participation sports – is helping disaffected pupils from a deprived area of Nottinghamshire
Brown pledges major skills shake-up
News | Tuesday November 27th, 2007The Government has unveiled a new drive to improve the skills of millions of workers under sweeping welfare reforms which sparked union warnings about "stigmatising" some people.
UK Skills Team strikes gold in Japan
News | Thursday November 22nd, 20074 medals and 9 medallions of excellence won at WorldSkills 2007
London Adult Learning Budget up 14% to £672M
News | Thursday November 22nd, 2007Spending increase of 14% over next 3 years to tackle ‘worklessness’ in London.
Employers and unions welcome £11bn investment in apprenticeships
News | Monday November 19th, 2007Government plans to pump extra cash into skills training and dramatically increase the number of apprenticeship schemes have been welcomed by both employers and unions.
BAA announce £200k investment in Stansted Airport skills academy
News | Monday November 19th, 2007Details of a new Stansted Airport Employment and Skills Academy were today unveiled at the annual Employment Forum to gathered representatives of airport employers, employee representatives, local councils and educational providers.
British workers get £90m to train for Olympic jobs
News | Monday November 19th, 2007Gordon Brown’s pledge to deliver "British jobs for British workers" was underlined today with new plans to ensure Londoners beat foreigners to jobs created by the 2012 Olympics.
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