The Sector Skills Council for fashion and textiles has launched a nationwide campaign to highlight the increasing skills crisis in...
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UK-based skilled migrants face points-based visa scrutiny from end of month
by Greg Pitcherby Greg PitcherUK-based highly skilled migrant workers will have to apply for visa extensions under new rules from 29 February, the government...
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New immigration rules to restrict access to UK doctor training have been introduced by the government.The rules implement the first...
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This week’s Friday Podcast is a special edition on the news story that broke at the beginning of the week...
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Doubling of apprentice numbers given cautious welcome by business groups
by Mike Berryby Mike BerryBusiness groups have broadly welcomed government plans to double the number of apprentices to 500,000 a year by 2020, but...
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Last week saw the worst week on the London stock market since 9/11, with £77m wiped off the value of the UK's bigggest companies. But what does the 'credit crunch' mean for humanresources and the employment market? Tara Craig investigtes.
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All the talk of filling the skills gap, signing up to the Leitch skills pledge, the formation of the Commission...
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The announcement of the commissioners to oversee the all-new Commission for Employment and Skills (Personnel Today, 11 December 2007 and...
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A leading construction training body has rebuffed suggestions from the government’s migration policy adviser that the UK’s construction labour force...
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Skills minister David Lammy has unveiled the National Skills Academy for the Process Industries.The academy covers chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and polymer...
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Despite a shortage of IT students, the minister for higher education, Bill Rammell, has told a select committee inquiry it...
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David Metcalf, the government’s adviser on migration policy, has suggested that a ban on non-EU unskilled workers may be lifted...
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Faced with a shortage of new recruits for its engineering business, Leyland Trucks drew up a strategy to grow its own. Lucia Cockroft reports.
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Transport firms are missing out on millions of pounds of government funding for staff training, according to Skills for Logistics....