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  Short courses help adults to a second career

  19 Dec 2011: Demand is soaring for short courses, from drumming to shoe-making, among people seeking a portfolio career – and it's good news for colleges and universities

• Gove orders inquiry into exams advice given to teachers

  7 Dec 2011: Claims that examiners are giving teachers advice on what questions their pupils should expect in GCSE and A-level papers

• Sue Cathcart obituary

  5 Dec 2011:

  Other lives: Dedicated teacher who recognised the chances that further education gives to young people

• Strikes hit services as millions heed unions' call to fight pension cuts

  30 Nov 2011: Many services come to virtual halt across UK public as public sector workers stage biggest day of industrial action in decades

• Speed read of the latest educational news

  21 Nov 2011: Free schools get spiritual, students get nasty and the Skills Funding Agency chief clams up

• Cuts must not destroy the huge potential of our young unemployed

  15 Nov 2011:

  Response: A focus on informal skills can build pathways to work, and regenerate communities in decline, says Jocey Quinn

• University admissions could create two-tier system, committee warns

  10 Nov 2011: MPs warn new proposals could channel some students into 'low-cost-model of higher education'

• Home Office faces legal action over 'bogus colleges' claim

  8 Nov 2011:

  Association for 450 language colleges seeks apology saying remark implied institutions were fronts for illegal immigration

• Speed read of the latest education news

  7 Nov 2011: Anarchist group Etonleaks promises to make life uncomfortable for old boys, and new, plus the college that is training guards for ships

• Towns where 1 in 4 young people are 'Neets' revealed

  3 Nov 2011:

  Doncaster, Grimsby and Warrington named in first study to map clusters of under-25s who are not in work, education or training

• Pensions reforms strike still on despite concessions to union demands

  2 Nov 2011:

  Government offers two key changes to original offer but TUC insists industrial action will 'certainly go ahead'

• Parents urged to be as proud of apprenticeships as university places

  2 Nov 2011: Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg calls for high-level practical courses to be viewed with as much prestige as degrees

• Apprenticeship figures are not what they seem

  28 Oct 2011: Vince Cable's announcement that the number of people starting apprenticeships has more than doubled should be questioned

• Teachers lobby MPs over pension changes

  26 Oct 2011: Schools minister Nick Gibb is given 150,000-signature petition urging government to scrap proposed changes to teachers' pensions

• Education expenditure: schools and hard knocks

  25 Oct 2011: Editorial: two worrying recent developments make the days of 'education, education, education' seem very distant

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