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I would like to respond to the article by Roger Francis entitled Provider Funding Cuts – They Are Dead Parrots. Welcome To The New World…
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The headlines over the last few weeks have all been about huge cuts in Apprenticeship Funding. Of course, they could equally have read “Huge Increases…
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