Specialist education and skills consultancy Communications Management has been named the number one PR agency in the public sector outside of London and number six nationally. This ranking is the first public sector league table to be published by industry magazine PR Week. read more...

LSC press release out yesterday - piggy back if you have something to say.
http://readingroom.lsc.gov.uk/lsc/National/nat-547RouteZeroCarbonFEColle...

As further huge cuts in state spending on key areas of adult education begin to bite could the new Mayor of London Boris Johnson emerge as an unlikely saviour?

After a one-year reprieve from severe cuts in such funding, the capital faces a massive shortfall in central Government support needed to meet expected demands in particular for English for speakers of other languages. read more...

You can upload your education and training press releases free on the site, just register/login and follow the simple instructions. When choosing which PRs to upload please be sensitive to your audience, it's nationwide, so very local info such as your open day dates won't be of interest. read more...

The DIUS FE & Skills Newsletter is now a subscription-based mailing list. Therefore, if you would like to receive future editions of this newsletter please complete their form it's free and very informative - see the newsletter here...
http://www.dius.gov.uk/mailshots/mailshot_170608.html

· GCSEs and A-levels should stay, says bosses' leader
· Education system 'too stretched for exam change'

Polly Curtis, education editor
Monday June 23, 2008

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By Mike Baker - BBC news story

Should university students be seen as learners or customers?

While you might argue they are both, the dividing line between the two has become dangerously blurred. This was underlined by two news stories this week. read more...

Trade website bighospitality.co.uk has launched a new feature called Rising Stars and is looking for catering and hospitality students to take part. Ideal candidates will be showing a real enthusiasm for a career in hospitality and may have already achieved something of note. Participants should be happy to be interviewed and provide a digital photo of themselves. read more...

By Sky News SkyNews - Wednesday, June 4 One of the world's top universities is to trial its own entrance exam because A-level "grade inflation" has made it impossible to tell one straight-A candidate from another.

Sir Richard Sykes, Rector of Imperial, announced the move as he called for extreme action to "save" bright children from underperforming state schools. read more...

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