14-19 Education - Unskilled faring worse internationally(Guardian, 9 July 2008)
Young British people who lack A-levels or 5 good GCSEs fare worse on the labour market than the international average, new figures show.
Apprenticeships - Students call for minimum wage for apprenticeships (Guardian, 9 July 2008)
Student leaders have warned that the minimum wage exemption for young people training on apprenticeships causes discouragement.
Higher Education - Universities' influence on economy grows (HEFCE, 10 July 2008)
The Higher Education - Business and Community Interaction (HE-BCI) survey, published today, reveals that higher education's contribution to the economy continued to grow in 2006-07, reaching record levels.
IAG - The Brightside Trust and UNIAID join forces (The Brightside Trust, 28 June 2008)
The student finance charity, UNIAID, is to become part of The Brightside Trust, the foremost provider of e-mentoring in the fields of education and training.
IAG - UK LAIS National Occupational Standards approved (LLUK, 10 July 2008)
Following extensive consultation with employers and stakeholders, Lifelong Learning UK have now developed the first combined suite of National Occupational Standards (NOS) for Libraries, Archives and Information Services employers.
Regional - Blears hands more power to residents in Bradford, Barnsley and Calderdale (Communities and Local Government, 9 July 2008)
Local people will be urged to take more control over disused council buildings if they can show they can do a better job, as part of the Government's plans to devolve more power from Whitehall to local people.
Skills - Real-life apprentices build their skill(Telegraph, 4 July 2008)
Frustrated by poor-quality training for building workers, a construction chief has set up his own school.
Skills - Skills training brings business and social benefits (Financial Times, 8 July 2008)
What a company means by its "community" varies widely. For some, it may be the population living in the area surrounding a factory or office building. For others, it may be customers or employees.
Skills - Wanted: girl plumbers to plug big gap in industrial skills (Times, 11 July 2008)
Recruiting more women into traditional male occupations such as plumbing and engineering could help solve the acute skills shortages crippling parts of British industry, the Government said yesterday as it launched a scheme to persuade more girls into a career in construction.
Skills - These reforms are exciting, but they're not the first(Guardian, 15 July 2008)
Opinion piece: The starting gun has finally gone off! In the two years since Lord Leitch uttered the words in his seminal report: "reform and relicense the UK network of 25 sector skills councils", there has been a kind of phoney war going on, says Tom Bewick, chief executive of Creative and Cultural Skills.
Skills - A Germany seeking skills warms up its welcome (Financial Times, 15 Jul 2008)
Alexandra Pohl is one of only five women in Germany to hold the coveted "patent", the document delivered after years of training that entitles its holder to command the world's largest vessels as captain.
Vocational Education - Vocationally trained millionaires beat credit crunch (Telegraph, 15 July 2008)
Britain's wealthiest self-made billionaires, whose careers began with a vocational training course, are beating the credit crisis and increasing their fortunes, new research shows.
