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Education in the media: 5 January 2017

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Today’s news review looks at the Children’s Commissioner’s report into children’s engagement with the internet, a report from the Higher Education Policy Institute into alternative providers, British Sign Language becoming a formal apprenticeship qualification and Mandarin Chinese coming out on …

Skills and Apprenticeships Minister Robert Halfon on his priorities

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teenagers working on computers, looking pleased with what they are doing

Robert Halfon, Skills and Apprenticeships Minister, wrote the following comment piece for the New Statesman. My vision has always been simple: that each and every person no matter what their age or background gets a chance at a decent job …

Jo Johnson: Dyson Institute of Technology

Today, Friday 4 November, Dyson announced that it will be launching an Institute of Technology in partnership with Warwick University that will offer engineering degree apprenticeships to twenty five students a year. The succesful applications will work for Dyson in …