education
22 Feb 2021
Broadband pressure sees people turning to mobile phones to stay online
PA Media has covered the results of a new report suggesting that extra pressure on broadband connections is forcing people to resort to using mobile phones to stay online during...
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22 Feb 2021
Chancellor must do more to tackle rampant rural disadvantage, campaigners urge
New economic research reveals government spending per person on public infrastructure is 44% higher for urban areas than it is for rural areas. Rural Services Network, Britain’s Leading Edge, CPRE,...
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08 Feb 2021
Impact of COVID-19 on the countryside
BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme has reported this week about the impact of COVID-19 on the countryside, where despite the fact that cases may be lower, ‘isolation and job insecurity...
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11 Jan 2021
PM urged to provide more devices and connections for pupils’ remote learning
Local paper Hereford Times has reported on calls for Boris Johnson to take urgent action to help pupils lacking the devices or connections needed to learn at home as schools...
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04 Jan 2021
Parents and teachers face ‘confusing picture’ over school closures
ITV has reported on the new plans set out by Education Secretary Gavin Williamson MP (Con) for the start of the school term in England, amid rising pressures over the...
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14 Dec 2020
Church of England to provide teacher-training in rural schools in new partnership with Teach First
Church Times and The Times Educational Supplement have reported that trainee teachers are to be sent into primary schools in more deprived rural areas as part of a plan to...
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05 Oct 2020
Skills Guarantee
On the 29th September the Prime Minister made a speech outlining a ”major expansion of post-18 education and training to level up and prepare workers for post-COVID economy” From April...
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28 Sep 2020
Councils warn that a quarter of childcare providers could close in rural areas
Nursery World has reported on warnings from English councils that up to one in 10 childcare providers could close this winter, and that as many as one in four are...
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24 Sep 2020
Skills – Proportion of employees and self-employed that received job related training in the last 4 weeks
This analysis presents data taken from the Annual Population Survey of the proportion of employees and self-employed that received job related training in the preceding 4 weeks (employees and self...
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23 Sep 2020
Skills – Percentage of population aged 16-64 with NVQs
This analysis presents data taken from the Annual Population Survey of the proportion of population aged 16-64 with NVQs. The analysis shows the results of the survey both currently and...
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