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<title><![CDATA[ CIPD: US unemployment drops below UK rate ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ British and EU policy makers need to learn a lesson from positive United States jobs data as US unemployment drops below UK rate...<br><br><br> ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2601</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>03/02/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Hayes launches independent review of professionalism in the FE and skills sector ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ 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. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2600</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>02/02/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Dorset LEP - Making Dorset A Beautiful Place To Do Business ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ The Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership, or LEP, is being launched in April to boost jobs and attract new industry right across Dorset. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2599</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>02/02/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Skills Funding Agency response to NAO report on apprenticeships ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ <i>"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..."</i> ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2598</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>02/02/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ BIS response to NAO report on Apprenticeships ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ John Hayes, Minister for Skills said: <i>"Unprecedented investment, backed by tough new measures to ensure that quality matches quantity, has helped make apprenticeships the gold standard vocational qualification.</a>" ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2597</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>01/02/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Statistics confirm substantial growth in apprenticeship starts and completions ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ 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. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2596</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>31/01/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Poorest communities feel brunt of spending cuts ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/serving-deprived-communities-recession" class="iconhtm">The first systematic review of the real impact of public spending cuts on local authorities</a> was recently published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2594</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>30/01/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ UK economy will get worse before it gets better ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ 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". ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2595</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>30/01/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ CIPD - New meaning to 'squeezed middle' ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ ..middle managers are under most pressure, have worst work-life balance and least sense of job security. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=1758</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>30/01/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ GCSE results released - South West Analysis ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ SLIM has published an overview of the national GCSE results, with more detailed sub-regional analyses, tables and charts. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2590</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>27/01/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Government 'overestimated' back-to-work scheme numbers ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ The government has overestimated the number of people who will be helped back into employment by its work programme in Britain, a report says. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2591</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>27/01/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Illiteracy costs the UK economy &pound;81 billion annually ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ According to a preliminary report released by the World Literacy Foundation, the estimated cost of illiteracy to the UK economy is &pound;81.312bn each year. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2593</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>27/01/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ The merits of an FE loans system debated ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ The FE loans system proposed by government has been criticised by the leaders of three key membership bodies. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2592</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>27/01/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ TUC - GDP per person set to decline in 2012 ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ GDP per person is likely to fall in 2012 and will not return to pre-recession levels until 2016, the TUC says today ahead of the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) first estimate of economic growth in the last quarter of 2011. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2589</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>26/01/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Manufacturing cities 'fall further behind on employment' ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ The gap in unemployment rates between cities with a high dependence on manufacturing and those with a high concentration of 'knowledge intensive services' is widening, according to a new study. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2588</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>26/01/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Asda creates 5,000 new jobs ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Half of ASDA jobs created last year went to young people ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2583</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>25/01/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ National Apprenticeship certification system launched for England ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ As the Certifying Authority for Apprenticeships in England, the Alliance will be responsible for issuing certificates upon the successful completion of each Apprenticeship. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2587</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>25/01/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Adult Learners' Week Awards (England) 2012- last chance to nominate! ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ <b>Last chance</b> to nominate for the Adult Learners' Week Awards 2012! Deadline for receipt of nominations is 5pm on Friday 27 January 2012, so <a href="http://bit.ly/yIdcoh" class="iconhtm" target="_blank">make your nomination now</a>. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2584</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>25/01/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Enhanced Renewal Grants Phase 2 - Additional 19 Projects to be funded ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ City College Plymouth, South Devon College, Truro and Penwith College &amp; Wiltshire College are among 19 colleges which have received confirmation of capital funding by means of an Enhanced Renewal Grant. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2586</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>25/01/2012</pubdate>
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<title><![CDATA[ UK GDP contracts by 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2011 ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Summary Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the Labour Market - Quarter 4 2011 - January GDP update ]]></description>
<link>http://www.swslim.org.uk/news/news_detail_page.asp?News_ID=2585</link>
<author>a.dean@ex.ac.uk (Andy Dean)</author>
<pubdate>25/01/2012</pubdate>
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