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Youth Employment and Apprenticeships

Posted on December 10, 2017 by ianchisnall

On Wednesday Parliament debated a topic that is vital to all of us, that of youth employment. The debate was convened by Gillian Keegan who is the recently elected MP for Chichester and who believes she is the only MP … Continue reading →

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A Government department in chaos

Posted on November 29, 2017 by ianchisnall

Anne Milton is the MP for Guildford and Minister for Women and Minister of State for Apprenticeships and Skills State in the Department for Education. On Monday the preview of an interview with her was published to question why the outcome … Continue reading →

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A week is a long time in Politics

Posted on November 27, 2017 by ianchisnall

Once a week my blog appears as a column in the Argus newspaper under the heading ‘I do like Mondays’. This is today’s piece:      Last week should have been important for most people in the UK as two … Continue reading →

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The Government must fund its educational promises

Posted on October 2, 2017 by ianchisnall

In July when Schools were preparing to send pupils home for their Summer break, Justine Greening the Secretary of State for Education announced that she intends to rearrange the way in which schools are funded and in preparation for future … Continue reading →

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The DfE ate our Brexit Homework

Posted on September 3, 2017 by ianchisnall

When I was a student, the required levels of Summer homework throughout my education was relatively superficial. However I have a friend who studies Law at Oxford where the beginning of each term commences with a series of exams, so … Continue reading →

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A nation in desperate need of change

Posted on May 14, 2017 by ianchisnall

This morning there are reports from various sources of how many vacancies or impending vacancies exist in the NHS and our state run educational service. The high levels of vacancies for Nurses estimated at some 40,000 or 11% of the … Continue reading →

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Training people in low skills is needed?

Posted on May 10, 2017 by ianchisnall

In an interview on Monday night’s newsnight, Iain Duncan Smith explains what sort of barriers to immigration he believes that the Government will impose post Brexit. He was interviewed by Emily Maitlis who carefully asked who would be let in. … Continue reading →

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A Government asleep at the wheel

Posted on April 15, 2017 by ianchisnall

At the beginning of April I posted a blog about the early indications that the Governments new apprenticeship scheme was not ready for delivery as promised back in 2015. As of the 6th April the Government began collecting a new … Continue reading →

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Who’d employ an apprentice?

Posted on April 4, 2017 by ianchisnall

The world of apprenticeships is about to go through a major change. A major change was proposed just after Theresa May was chosen as our Prime Minister by Tory MPs following David Camerons resignation. The plan is that from Thursday, … Continue reading →

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The pipers who play their own tunes

Posted on November 26, 2016 by ianchisnall

From April 2017 all businesses will be assessed to see if their wage bill is high enough to pay a new form of tax called the apprenticeship levy. This will only become payable if the wage bill exceeds £3M or … Continue reading →

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