Department for Education and Skills

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Name: Department for Education and Skills

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Director of Skills, Higher Education and Lifelong Learning appointed

Huw Morris will be responsible for overseeing higher education, further education and the wider post-16 education and training sector in Wales along with oversight of the qualification system. Currently Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Pro Vice Chancellor ... [Published Noodls - May 15 2013]

Entities: Higher Education, Dannel Malloy, Appointed

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Schools director for Wales leaving to join education consultancy

Chris Tweedale to take up position of UK director of CfBT Education TrustWales' schools director is to leave his postWales' schools director is leaving the Welsh Government to join a leading education consultancy, it has been announced.Chris Tweedale, ... [Published Wales Online - May 14 2013]

Entities: Wales, Education, Welsh Government, UK Department for Education and Skills

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Department for Education and Skills

5 reasons it’s great to be an apprentice

Read our short-and-snappy guide to the bonuses of being an apprentice…1. You can earn more than graduatesA recent study carried out by Zenos, a subsidiary of the education provider Pearson, revealed that its IT apprentices were £47,000 better off than ... [Published Jobs and Careers Magazine - May 07 2013]

Entities: Department for Education and Skills, Invention, UK Department for Business Innovation & Skills

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Chiltern Primary School

Businessman faces jail over photocopier scam

A BUSINESSMAN is facing jail for conning schools, health centres and a Hull charity for the homeless out of more than 500,000 in an elaborate fraud.Jonathan Wilbourne, 45, duped school bosses, the Government's education department and health chiefs into ... [Published This is Hull and East Riding - May 06 2013]

Entities: Fraud, prison, Chiltern Primary School, Department for Education and Skills, Custody

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 3 reports

Francis Maude

Government's Controversial 'Nudge-Unit' To Become Profit-Making

The government's controversial "nudge unit", which encourages people to make better lifestyle choices, is to be part-privatised, transforming it into a profit-making business.The Behavioural Insights Team will join with a commercial partner, and as a ... [Published Huffington Post UK - May 01 2013]

Entities: Francis Maude, privatise, Department for Education and Skills, Charles Drew

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Gove and Truss: an impoverished view of education

The Department for Education and Skills appears to be channelling for some of Charles Dicken's more grotesque characters. Gradgrind Gove has long been preaching his gospel of 'facts' and rote learning. Now he has decided that children and teachers are ... [Published Ekklesia - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Education, Department for Education and Skills, Quakers, United Kingdom, Concealment

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Government not monitoring open source use, minister admits

And no take-up targets three years after pledge to avoid 'lock-in'Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google Plus Share This Smaller text Larger text Article commentsThe government does not know how much open source software it uses or what its value is, ... [Published CIO - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Open Source, Julia Goldsworthy, Department for Education and Skills

Quotes

Director General for the Department for Education and SkillsSkills Owen Evans said: "The Welsh Government has a dynamic vision for the post-16 sector to ensure education and skills play their part in eradicating poverty and supporting the creation of jobs and growth in the economy. "Huw brings with him a wealth of experience and knowledge; his appointment will help drive forward our clearly defined plans as we drive forward our ambitious post-16 agenda. I wish him the very best of luck in his new role." Huw Morris said: "I look forward to delivering a successful higher education policy; driving the development of further education; raising skill levels and ensuring that Welsh business can employ individuals with the skills we know they are demanding. "I am delighted to have been appointed to this challenging role in a vibrant and dynamic department. I hope I can make a significant contribution to the future of Wales.""

Director of Skills, Higher Education and Lifelong Learning appointed [Published Noodls - May 15 2013]

Detective Sergeant Phil Shrimpton said: "This involved primary schools and doctors surgeries. It was a long, complicated fraud."

Businessman faces jail over photocopier scam [Published This is Hull and East Riding - May 06 2013]

"The Office for National Statistics recently showed that public sector productivity flat-lined from 1997 to 2010 - the entire period that Labour was in power. We are on the side of those who work hard and want to get on - that's why we are determined to set free the legions of entrepreneurs in the public sector and help them run their work in the ways they know best"

Government's Controversial 'Nudge-Unit' To Become Profit-Making [Published Huffington Post UK - May 01 2013]