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The Chancellors’ Budget (October 2018) allocates £100 million for the first phase of the National Retraining Scheme (NRS).This will include “a new careers guidance service with expert advice to help people identify work opportunities in their area, and state-of-the-art courses combining online learning with traditional classroom teaching to develop key transferable skills.” I suspect this will focus on……

The chancellor’s use of language in this afternoon’s Budget was patronising at best. Schools are facing real cuts and making real redundancies, writes Ed Dorrell at TES. https://www.tes.com/news/little-extras-extraordinarily-tone-deaf-choice-words Some reflections: – As schools are being asked to deliver more and more and following recent Headteacher and FE sector protests in Parliament the government is missing……

Last night I watched Channel Four news which presented the grim reality of many young people in certain parts of the country facing hard times. Ironically, Nottingham isn’t an Opportunity Area Click on this link to watch and listen to the voices of young people: https://www.channel4.com/news/why-is-nottingham-the-hardest-place-in-uk-for-young-people-to-find-employment-or-training Now, you might expect that opportunities for young people……

More people than ever have applied this year for university courses with a 15 October deadline. https://www.fenews.co.uk/press-releases/21284-record-number-of-applicants-for-early-deadline-university-courses?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=FE+News+via+email+-+Daily+update&utm_campaign=20181024_m147894581_Daily+fenews+update+via+RSS&utm_term=Rec Applications for most 2019 medicine, dentistry and veterinary science/medicine courses, as well as all courses at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, had to be submitted to UCAS by 18:00 on 15 October. Statistics published by UCAS today,……

    New report on Youth Voice Census  report launches today. Responses were received from 14-24 year olds (1,498 in total) as they transition between education and employment. Laura-Jane Rawlins, CEO says “the  census will now become an annual temperature check on young people’s experiences and confidence levels.” This first census, in partnership with Pearson and The Careers……