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Higher Futures news digest

Week ending 7 December 2007

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  • 14-19 Education - Education Quandary (The Independent, 22 November 2007)
    Opinion piece: "Why bring in academic diplomas as well as technical diplomas for sixth-formers when we already have perfectly good A-levels?"
  • 14-19 Education - Top independent schools urged to teach the Diploma - Knight (DCSF, 3 December 2007)
    Schools Minister Jim Knight said today he wants to see top public schools teaching the new Diplomas in future.
  • 14-19 Education - Open schools for skills training, says Dearing (Guardian, 6 December 2007)
    One of the government's most influential education advisers will today call on ministers to create a tier of technical schools teaching vocational diplomas.
  • Further Education - Colleges must meet challenge to change (DIUS, 22 November 2007)
    Colleges must change to meet the world of work or lose funding, John Denham, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills warned today.
  • Further Education - Association of Colleges: John Denham speech (DIUS, 22 November 2007)
    John Denham, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, addresses the Association of Colleges conference.
  • Government - Education and Skills Bill (DCSF, 28 November 2007)
    Information, links and supporting documents on the Education and Skills Bill, which was introduced into the House of Commons today.
  • IAG - Unistats website goes live (HEFCE, 26 November 2007)
    The Unistats website, designed to help prospective students compare colleges and universities in the UK, goes live today.
  • Skills - Extra cash to lift workforce skills (Times Educational Supplement, 23 November 2007)
    But the injection of an extra £1.2bn a year is strictly geared to employment and will mean more cuts to adult education.
  • Skills - Investment in employee skills training is boost for business (Government News Network, 26 November 2007)
    Expansion of trailblazing Train to Gain Service offers training for all.
  • Skills - Brown pledges major skills shake-up (Guardian, 26 November 2007)
    The Government has unveiled a new drive to improve the skills of millions of workers under sweeping welfare reforms which sparked union warnings about "stigmatising" some people.
  • Skills - Funding boost for higher level skills in the workforce (DIUS, 4 December 2007)
    Today the Government announced new funding, rising to at least £50 million a year by 2010-11 to support innovative ways for Higher Education to work with employers to meet their skills needs.
  • Skills - HEFCE welcomes funding boost for higher level skills in the workforce (HEFCE, 4 December 2007)
    HEFCE has welcomed the Government's announcement of at least £105 million over the next three years to support new employer-focused higher education provision.
  • Vocational Education - Takeaway learning (Guardian, 27 November 2007)
    Vocational courses will pull in many more students. How can colleges cope? Simple - through outreach.
  • Vocational Education - Call to raise vocational training levels (Financial Times, 5 December 2007)
    Britain would benefit from introducing a German-style vocational training system, centred on a long-term commitment to apprenticeships sponsored by the government and business, according to a survey of large German companies in the UK.
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