Latest News for: School leavers

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Calling all teenagers! Jobs in tech are booming but do you have the right skills?

London Evening Standard 01 May 2024
A better understanding of IT is crucial for the next generation of leavers – and schools are finally waking up to this ... .
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To the Hardworking Men and Women of Lagos

This Day 01 May 2024
Breaking .. View on Workers’ Day ... A new charter on what we owe one another, and a fresh understanding of our roles from the executive committee down to the newly minted school-leaver who arrived last week from Ekiti, Abia, Kaduna or New York ... .
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Tertiary Degree Programmes: alternative paths to third-level education

The Irish Times 30 Apr 2024
Such a collaborative approach offers another option for school-leavers and for those considering a return to education and should help to address the reticence some might have around participation in further education, as opposed to higher education.
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We’re a nation of NEETs. Something must be done

Building 30 Apr 2024
Who will take ownership of this national tragedy, asks Richard Steer ... Apprenticeships were designed to attract the young school leaver who might not want to take A levels or go to university, but they are not doing the trick either ... .
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NW business briefs: Valloop; Hilton; TalkTalk Business; Amici; Lowry Hotel; K2 Architects; Just Bee Honey; Hello Earth

The Business Desk 30 Apr 2024
His retirement comes off the back of the recent expansion of the ‘Hospitality Connect’ programme, an initiative that links Manchester’s hotel network with School leavers from more than 30 schools in the region.
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Reuben: Life in the Dales, review: finally, a Gen Z-er who doesn’t want to be ...

AOL 25 Apr 2024
Believe everything you read, and today’s school leavers are incapable of holding down a job, preoccupied with their mental health, and lacking basic life skills. As a cheerful corrective to this you can watch Reuben ... Not very much happens, though ... .
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The Hollywood daughters raiding their mums

The Daily Mail 24 Apr 2024
When my then 13-year-old appeared at the dinner table in a dress I hadn't worn - or seen - since my school leavers' prom, it felt like falling down a rabbit hole ... Catherine Zeta JonesSalma HayekOscars. .
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Are settler politics running unchecked in Israel?

Al Jazeera 24 Apr 2024
list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Israel’s killing rage. list 2 of 3How Israel has destroyed Gaza’s schools and universities ... end of list ... “Forty years ago, around 10 percent of school leavers described themselves as [followers of] Orthodox [Judaism] ... .
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Young people in Britain aren’t bad at learning languages – but the school system doesn’t ...

The Conversation 22 Apr 2024
... schools offered only one to two hours per week ... This comparatively short period of formal language learning is likely to have a substantial impact on language attainment amongst school leavers.
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Barbie, Bridgerton and billions of pounds: how streaming – and tax breaks – fuelled the UK’s ‘Brollywood’ screen boom

The Observer 21 Apr 2024
Such opportunities attract everyone from school leavers to retired firefighters (one of whom became a locations marshal after Warner Bros launched a test training programme last year).
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MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Sicknote crackdown puts clear water between Sunak and Starmer

The Daily Mail 20 Apr 2024
Sir Keir Starmer keeps referring to his 'changed Labour Party', but does anyone believe that the changes are profound and lasting? ... Several cohorts of students and school-leavers were deprived of the normal transitions between study and working life ... .
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How to get more people into military uniforms

Economist 18 Apr 2024
He describes dropping a one-year period of service for school-leavers in 2011 as “a mistake” ... .
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Touring Luxembourg with Francis of Delirium, the indie star making big waves in a tiny country

NME 18 Apr 2024
She moved here aged 13; her parents are international school teachers from Canada, so she’d previously lived in Antwerp, Zurich and Vancouver ... School-leavers tend to go to neighbouring countries for university, so maintaining a youth culture is hard.
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‘What 22-year-old attends meetings like this?’: two young professionals on forging ahead in their careers

AOL 16 Apr 2024
Karun Nayyar was just four months into his job when he experienced his first major career highlight when he attended a meeting at a racetrack ... “What 22-year-old attends meetings like this?” ... one former apprentice, Nicole, joined us as a school leaver ... .
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Scotland’s last all-girl state school beats the odds

The Times/The Sunday Times 10 Apr 2024
Just over 60 per cent of leavers at the school, in the west end of Glasgow, gained five Highers in the last three years, despite almost half of its students being deemed “very deprived” in the ...
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