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		<title>Want to get ahead? Then do nothing about it!</title>
		<link>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2011/11/17/want-to-get-ahead-then-do-nothing-about-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve spent a lot of time with people who have used their own time and money to learn new skills and gain qualifications to help them progress. Yet it seems that many employees who are not satisfied with their career progression won’t do anything to help themselves.
Some 42 per cent of the 2,000 people who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basic skills versus migrant workers issue won’t go away</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week or so ago a CIPD survey linked the growth in employment of migrant workers with that of the lack of basic skills among school leavers. Now David Frost, the outgoing head of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has joined in the discussion, with a call to the government to help businesses employ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School leavers ‘unemployable’ so migrant workers fill the gap</title>
		<link>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2011/08/24/school-leavers-%e2%80%98unemployable%e2%80%99-so-migrant-workers-fill-the-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It never ceases to amaze me that some children can go though 10 or more years of formal education and yet leave without employability skills. But once again a report has drawn attention to this appalling situation.  Perhaps it&#8217;s little wonder that some employers prefer to take on migrant workers.
My rant stems from new research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School and college leavers still lacking English and maths skills</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 14:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time was when I thought that 10 or more years of education should be enough to ensure that school and college leavers have reasonable levels of basic skills. How naïve I was! Survey after survey has dispelled that notion. 
The latest grim reading is the CBI / EDI annual Education &#38; Skills survey, which captured the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do we need – basic skills or higher level skills?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Training: does the country need more people with basic skills – or do we need more people with higher-level skills? That’s the debate that has re-surfaced following the publication of the government’s consultation document Skills for Sustainable Growth last Thursday.
The CBI and NIACE have welcomed the consultation. The British Chambers of Commerce say that while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIPD in the firing line over quangos error</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning and development body under fire: there must be a few red faces at the CIPD – which until now has tended to be regarded as the leading authority in its field – following publication of its report on quangos which is wildly inaccurate and has angered a lot of people.
 So serious are the errors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L &amp; D cut despite need for more!</title>
		<link>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2010/05/16/l-d-cut-despite-need-for-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’re told that Britain needs a better educated and better trained workforce and yet new stats show that organisations in the UK cut their training and development budgets by four per cent and reduced training staff by five per cent last year.
The stats come from a new study by Bersin &#38; Associates. Companies surveyed spent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young people on the scrap heap?</title>
		<link>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2009/10/13/young-people-on-the-scrap-heap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One in three young people aged between 16 and 24 have now been out of work for more than six months according to a TUC analysis of official Government statistics released today. There are now 366,000 young people who have been unemployed for more than six months.
This is pretty grim news, and doesn’t look like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grim news on the NEET front</title>
		<link>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2009/08/18/grim-news-on-the-neet-front/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grim news from the Government: the number of 18-24 year olds not in education, employment or training – the so-called NEETS – went up to 835,000 in the second quarter of this year.
Not surprisingly, the TUC has responded by calling for more employers to take on apprentices and for the Government to ensure its guarantee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do you want, what do you really really want?</title>
		<link>http://www.fuselearning.co.uk/blog/2009/08/05/what-do-you-want-what-do-you-really-really-want/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost three quarters of people say they are planning to change their careers…but one in four never will because they don’t know what they really want to do, according to research from the Careers Advice Service.
The research also shows that 71 per cent think the best way to keep their career moving forward is through [...]]]></description>
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