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Getting young people back into education, employment or training
26 March 2010
The Government has set a target to reduce the proportion of 16- to 18-year-olds not in education, employment or training to 7.6% by 2010......
> Learn More Budget 2010: Investing in the skills and education of young people
25 March 2010
The 2010 Budget has revealed that the government will be making a £270m fund available for universities. This will help to create.....
> Learn More Calls to protect adult learners from cuts in the budget
23 March 2010
In the Skills Strategy document released last November the Business Secretary Lord Mandelson had said that investment in adult skills.....
> Learn More Expectations for soaring demand, rejected applications and university fees looming in HE
17 March 2010
The Tory shadow universities minister, David Willets, warned that students are likely to be facing a crisis in higher education as the.....
> Learn More CFE host workshop at UALL Conference
17 March 2010
Yesterday, (Tuesday 16 March) CFE hosted a workshop entitled, Measuring the impact of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) on.....
> Learn More `Service Academy
16 March 2010
Eleven of the largest hospitality, leisure and tourism organisations have signed up with the Conservatives to support a ‘Service.....
> Learn More Concerns raised about internships
15 March 2010
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has expressed concerns about employers exploiting thousands of young people by getting them to work without.....
> Learn More McDonald's offers work experience-based GCSE
11 March 2010
The fast-food chain McDonald
> Learn More Latest National Employer Skills Survey launched today
10 March 2010
The latest edition of a time series of surveys, established by the Learning and Skills Council, has been released. The National Employer.....
> Learn More Call to scrap 50% university student target
9 March 2010
Today, the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) has called for the next government to abolish Labour
> Learn More One in 13 schools judged inadequate by Ofsted
5 March 2010
The Times Educational Supplement (TES) has analysed the results of inspections carried out by the schools inspectorate Ofsted and revealed.....
> Learn More CFE addresses key graduate employability conference
4 March 2010
Yesterday CFE attended and addressed a key conference in London
> Learn More Government green home loan revolution to create 65,000 jobs
4 March 2010
Yesterday, the Government set out its vision for reducing carbon emissions from the UK's homes, by unveiling wide-ranging plans that are.....
> Learn More 25,000 council jobs under threat
1 March 2010
A BBC survey of English councils released today suggests that 25,000 jobs could go in the next three to five years as funding from central.....
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