14-19 Education - Axe A-levels or diplomas will be poor relation, ministers told (Guardian, 12 November 2007)
An Oxford University review is calling for A-levels to be scrapped to avoid the government's new diplomas being seen as their "poor relation".
14-19 Education - Diplomas could dominate in best schools, minister predicts (Guardian, 21 November 2007)
The best schools will teach children the government's new diplomas instead of A-levels and GCSEs in future, the education minister, Jim Knight, predicted today.
14-19 Education - Shaping futures: speech by Jim Knight(DCSF, 21 November 2007)
Transcript of a speech by Minister for Schools and Learners, Jim Knight, at the Association of Colleges Annual Conference.
Centres of Vocational Excellence - Confused? You will be(Guardian, 13 November 2007)
Opinion piece: CoVEs are on the way out, says education consultant Rosemary Clark.
Employed Learners - Minister and senior trade unionists urge union members to aim at higher education (Unionlearn, 16 November 2007)
Today Bill Rammell MP, Minister for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education, will dive his backing to unionlearn and unions on their achievements in getting their members into higher education.
Engineering sector - Retirement rules eased to plug skills gap (Telegraph, 16 November 2007)
Engineering firms battle to retain elderly workers as shortages mount, survey finds.
Higher Education - Ministers accused of burying news on university funding changes(Guardian, 16 November 2007)
The government was accused of 'sneaking out' £100m a year in cuts in higher education funding earlier this year because they contradicted the Leitch review of skills.
Higher Education - Universities swamp skills(Guardian, 20 November 2007)
Having further and higher education in the same department highlights serious funding inequalities.
Higher Education - Funding cuts threaten universities' retraining courses(Guardian, 21 November 2007)
Opinion piece: We warmly welcome Gordon Brown's commitment to education and lifelong learning, but we are puzzled as to why, without consultation, the government has announced that from 2008 universities and colleges in England will lose £100m of public funding for the teaching of students studying for ELQs.
Skills - Derby joins race for skills training(Guardian, 14 November 2007)
The University of Derby is to open a new division next year aimed at plugging the national skills gap.
Skills - Government's 'skills campaign' set to inspire the nation to learn (Learning and Skills Council, 16 November 2007)
The positive response the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) has received so quickly after the launch of its five year 'Our future.It's in our hands' marketing campaign, shows that the nation is being inspired and getting ready to improve their skills.
Skills - Tories attack Gordon Brown's skills initiative (Telegraph, 17 November 2007)
Gordon Brown's latest initiative to create "British jobs for British workers" was denounced as spin after it emerged that hundreds of thousands of new training places will be open to foreign nationals.
Skills - Agency workers facing increasing skills gap, warns TUC (Unionlearn, 21 November 2007)
Temporary agency workers on long-term assignments face a skills divide in the workplace that risks excluding them from permanent employment, the TUC reveals today.
Event - Missed opportunities?
A conference to launch a report on non-placed applicants (NPAs) in the UCAS data.
Tuesday 4 December 2007, 76 Portland Place, London
Event - E-portfolios: employability or engagement?
Friday 7 December 2007, Centre of Excellence in Professional Learning from the Workplace, University of Westminster, London
