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Private arms companies training military recruits shows just how far the #extreme mantra’ of privatisation has gone
The Royal Navy's recruits will continue to be trained by private companies.
Training
Britain needs gold standard apprenticeships
This week is National Apprenticeship Week and Britain needs to end poor quality, low-level apprenticeships.
Osborne’s trumpeted ‘superior’ skills training programme doesn’t exist
Ministers admit George Osborne's trumpeted "superior" skills training programme still hasn't started .
Half of school leavers don’t go to uni – let’s not forget them
Political debate tends to revolve around school leavers who go onto university, but there has been a lack of focus on the half of young people who don’t.
Teenagers need EMA, not JSA, to get back into the workplace
James Mills looks at the cost of keeping EMA, against that of its replacement, and finds that the latter isn't much cheaper, and is a lot worse, than the former