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30 Jan 2020
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28 Mar 2019
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1 Mar 2019
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24 Jan 2019
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Apprenticeships: What the new DfE figures tell us
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25 Oct 2018
Apprenticeship figures: What does it all mean?
The Resolution Foundation's Kathleen Henehan makes sense of this month’s apprenticeship data in four...
13 Sep 2018
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