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As devolution reshapes England’s skills system and the second iteration of LSIPs comes into focus, attention is rightly turning to how regional ambition becomes delivery. Suzanne Slater, Commercial...
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With the target of three million #apprenticeship starts by April 2020 having long been discredited, government attention this year is set to focus on how…
Dilemmas, dualisms and dialectics – Professor Martin Doel asks, what’s next for further education? #FutureofFE “Never make predictions, especially about the future” – Yogi Berra At the…
As the detail of T Levels has been announced, a considerable amount of attention has been focused on the industry placement element of the courses.…
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