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ICAEW's research into mid-tier accountancy firms found that, while firms expect AI to reduce demand for some early-career tasks, most do not anticipate an overall...
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There are now 11 applicants for every degree apprenticeship place in England, up from 3 just three years ago, according to government data. That competition...
Every year, apprenticeship providers brace themselves for a new set of funding rules. The annual ritual is familiar: download the document, highlight the changes, update...
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Ian Barratt, the newly-appointed chief executive of the Institute of Career Guidance (ICG), discusses how the differing pattern of careers guidance provision in the UK…
“One million young people left on the scrapheap”. That was among the many headlines about the latest unemployment figures, which also showed total unemployment reaching…
Now the frantic deluge of enrolments are coming to an end, further education colleges up and down the country are concentrating on getting their students…
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Over the past few months there have been increasing and obvious signs that the media is starting to take a long-overdue interest in literacy matters,…
The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) recently said that “not enough employers in the country know how Apprenticeships can benefit their businesses and…
The serious season of return to work and learning is underway and it finds Geoff Russell, chief executive of the Skills Funding Agency, considering the…
I was delighted to join Edge as CEO in July this year. Prior to this I was Principal and Chief Executive of South Essex College…
As levels of unemployment increase, there is a real surge of interest from the 19-25 age group in terms of reskilling and gaining qualifications to…
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