News

29/07/2008: BBC News - Media Studies Overtakes Physics

25/07/2008: Sector Skills Councils Relicensing - Details Announced

25/07/2008: Policy Watch - An Informal Guide to the World of Education in the 1st Half of 2008

23/07/2008: BBC News - Schools Adopt Vocational Courses

21/07/2008: Policy Watch - The Lords Economic Affairs Committee considers recent developments in Apprenticeships

21/07/2008: Policy Watch - The UK Commission for Employment and Skills Sets out its Initial Plan of Work

17/07/2008: BBC News - Degree Standards 'Need Scrutiny'

11/07/2008: Policy Watch on the Skills System

07/07/2008: Policy Watch: The Framework for Excellence Prepares to Launch for Much of the Learning and Skills Sector

04/07/2008: DIUS - New Framework Launched to Boost Student and Employer Choice

30/06/2008: Physics Teacher Shortage Warning

27/06/2008: Policy Watch: 14-19 Qualifications Strategy

23/06/2008: BBC news - Bosses cool on academic Diplomas

23/06/2008: Appointment of a Deputy Director

23/06/2008: Appointment of a New Communications Manager

19/06/2008: Policy Watch - Skills and training policies post Leitch. The DIUS Select Committee set off to investigate

16/06/2008: Reform - The value of mathematics

16/06/2008: Edexcel Policy Watch -Maths: counting the cost. A series of Reports highlight the problems

21/05/2008: Annual Conference a Hit

06/05/2008: DIUS Press Release - Further education colleges given powers to award their own foundation degrees

25/04/2008: Policy Watch - The latest CBI skills survey comes up with some strong messages

19/04/2008: BBC News - Flaws 'could sink diploma scheme'

14/04/2008: DIUS Consultation Paper - Higher Education at Work

19/03/2008: Aliance Meeting - SME's: Skills and Employment Issues

17/03/2008: Joint DCSF/DIUS consultation - Raising Expectations: enabling the system to deliver

27/02/2008: BBC News: "182,000 workers 'needed for 2012'"

21/02/2008: BBC News: UK 'needs new manufacturing strategy'

31/01/2008: BBC News: Cash boost for maths and science

02/01/2008: Alliance Meeting: Enterprise Training

13/12/2007: Workforce Development: Foundation Degrees

27/11/2007: Policy Watch - Making sense of the numbers and targets amongst the sea of change

21/11/2007: Policy Watch - The latest LSC grant letter comes with a battery of figures, targets and expectations

14/11/2007: "British Jobs for British Workers" needs skills drive - CBI

13/11/2007: Policy Watch - Queen's Speech

07/11/2007: DIUS Press Release - Reinvigorated vision needed for science's interface with society

23/10/2007: CBI Chief offers cautious welcome to new diplomas for 14 to 19 year olds

15/10/2007: Creating Excellence launch of Skills Seminars

08/10/2007: BBC Headline: "Call for major science campaign"

08/10/2007: Alliance Meeting: Creativity and STEM Provision in the South West

24/09/2007: Skills for Care Accolades

19/09/2007: SW Regional Leadership and Management Project

13/09/2007: BBC Headline: Foreigners 'prop up UK science'

10/09/2007: New Contact Details

05/09/2007: Skills Secretary with CBI leaders urges businesses in the regions to sign the skills pledge

17/08/2007: SW RSP Events Programme 2007/08

16/08/2007: Schools minister Jim Knight praises the resurgence in Maths 'A' Level Uptake

16/08/2007: CBI Applauds A-Level students but warns too few study science

15/08/2007: New Structure for SW Skills for Business Network

09/08/2007: CIHE Publication, 'Workforce Development: What works and why?'

27/07/2007: Appointment of a New Communications Manager

27/07/2007: New Publication by House of Lords 'Apprenticeship: a key route to skill'

29/06/2007: Interim Move

28/06/2007: IAG Alliance Meeting

21/05/2007: ESF Frameworks - Electronic Consultation- closing date 1 June 2007 for responses

21/05/2007: Launch of a New Website for Migrant Workers

30/04/2007: Annual Conference a Hit

16/04/2007: Thanks to our Partners

30/03/2007: NEWS: SW RSP Annual Conference

14/03/2007: The Leitch Report: A Sectors Approach

08/03/2007: Announcement of New Sectors Consultant

01/02/2007: European Social Fund (ESF) Update

23/01/2007: South West Higher Level Skills Pathfinder

19/01/2007: The Leitch Report: A Sectors Approach

05/12/2006: The Leitch Review of Skills Final Report Published

29/11/2006: Notification of A New CPD Network

24/11/2006: ESF Strategy 2007-13: Consultation is Underway

21/11/2006: Further Education and Training Bill Published

17/11/2006: The Queen's speech Highlights Education, Further Education and Training

25/10/2006: Great Western Research Studentship - Third Call for Applications

13/10/2006: Migrant Workers' Demand For Training Rockets

11/10/2006: Focus on Employability Skills

24/08/2006: SWRSP Pioneering Sector Skills Development

16/08/2006: Life After Exams

07/08/2006: SWRSP Looks to the Future with ICT Project

12/06/2006: South West Skills Under New Direction

21/06/2005: Drive to put business at the heart of skills brokerage agenda

14/03/2005: South West Enterprise and Skills Alliance - The New Force in Delivering Skills for the Region