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Alan Thomson
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Interview
Ahead of Labour’s Brighton conference, Pat McFadden, business, innovation and skills minister, tells Alan Thomson how the sector fits into its re-election plans
25 September 2009
Providers demand to raid FE budget to save scheme
Train to Gain must be rescued
25 September 2009
Use Train to Gain cash to send young to college, urges report
Learning and Skills Network says employers should part-fund staff training to expand 16-24 provision
25 September 2009
Managers’ desire to privatise is ‘obscene and foolish’
Education association president slams industry’s increasingly anti- trade union hierarchy
18 September 2009
Lib Dems: Colleges would expand under us
Party conference to call for `increased role’ for FE to innovate and broaden 14 to 19-year-olds’ horizons
18 September 2009
Flybe’s academy gains cash take-off
11 September 2009