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Higher Futures news digest

Week ending 17 August 2007

Lifelong Learning Networks
General sector news
  • Further Education - Building obsolescence (Education Guardian, 7 August 2007)
    If more adult education is to happen in the workplace, what are all these new college blocks for?
  • Higher Education - Campaign launches to end 'educational snobbery' (Guardian, 13 August 2007)
    A TV campaign is launching to discourage parents from bullying their children into going to university.
  • Skills - Recycle the talent pool (TES, 3 August 2007)
    Simply getting qualified may not be enough - businesses can boost workers' skills if they know how.
  • Skills - Skills shortage casts shadow over bumper July (Guardian, 8 August 2007)
    Britain's labour market enjoyed a buoyant month in July as pay rises for permanent staff hit a nine-year high.
  • TUC - Implementing the Leitch Review of Skills (Unionlearn, 8 August 2007)
    The TUC response and summary of key measures.
  • Vocational Education - Academic study 'not always best' (BBC, 6 August 2007)
    Parents should encourage teenagers to pursue a wider range of courses, not just academic ones, campaigners say.
  • Vocational Education - Brown urged to scrap A-levels (Guardian, 9 August 2007)
    Gordon Brown has been urged to scrap A-levels in favour of a qualification combining vocational and academic elements.
  • Vocational Education - Vocational results day launched (BBC, 9 August 2007)
    Hundreds of students across Wales have been receiving the results of their vocational qualifications and finding if they have secured university places.
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