Higher Education - Pushy parents can act as agents (BBC, 19 August 2008)
So many parents have been chasing university places for their children that the admissions system is now letting parents act as their agents.
Higher Education - University entrants hit record high (Guardian, 21 August 2008)
The number of students due to start university in the autumn has hit a new high, with more than 375,000 having won a degree place by yesterday.
Sector Skills Councils - Skills for Justice appoint new Director of Operations(Skills for Justice, 20 August 2008)
Amanda Ryalls started with the organisation this week, having previously worked in senior roles at the Sector Skills Development Agency (now called the UK Commission for Employment Skills).
Sectors: Health and Social Care - Health webchat with Ann Keen(10 Downing Street, 27 August 2008)
Ann Keen, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health Services, answered a range of questions on health issues in our Number 10 webchat.
Skills - Labour mobility looks like it is here to stay(Financial Times, 14 August 2008)
One of the fascinations of walking the teeming streets of the great city of London is to observe the plethora of languages and cultures you encounter.
Vocational Education - GCSE results reveal 'two-tier' schools(Independent, 21 August 2008)
Labour is presiding over a return by stealth to the era of grammar and secondary modern schools, a study suggests today.
Vocational Education - Ending the divide (Guardian, 22 August 2008)
Opinion piece: It always rains on GCSE parade day. No sooner are the latest improvements in grades announced than the doom-mongers grumble about falling standards.
Vocational Education - Sweet sixteen(Times, 22 August 2008)
This much is clear about GCSEs: pupils work hard for them. So late in the summer, the holidays can begin in earnest. Results for more than five million GCSEs spilt out of some 600,000 brown envelopes yesterday morning.
