British and EU policy makers need to learn a lesson from positive United States jobs data as US unemployment drops below UK rate...


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Minister for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning, John Hayes, today launched an independent review to investigate ways to improve the professional status of the further education and skills workforce.   ::   More...

The Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership, or LEP, is being launched in April to boost jobs and attract new industry right across Dorset.   ::   More...

"The Agency has valued the NAO’s open and transparent review of Apprenticeships and the opportunities we have had to consider and challenge aspects of the report over the past few months..."   ::   More...

John Hayes, Minister for Skills said: "Unprecedented investment, backed by tough new measures to ensure that quality matches quantity, has helped make apprenticeships the gold standard vocational qualification."   ::   More...

Final statistics published today show that 457,200 apprenticeship starts were delivered in the full 2010/11 academic year. This represents a 63.5% increase on 2009/10 figures.   ::   More...

Reacting to the growth figures for quarter four of 2011, IPPR’s Chief Economist says "the short term outlook suggests the UK economy has slipped back into recession and the feared 'double-dip' began in the final quarter of 2011".   ::   More...

The first systematic review of the real impact of public spending cuts on local authorities was recently published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.   ::   More...

According to a preliminary report released by the World Literacy Foundation, the estimated cost of illiteracy to the UK economy is £81.312bn each year.   ::   More...

The FE loans system proposed by government has been criticised by the leaders of three key membership bodies.   ::   More...