AI-powered student startups to battle for innovation awards in London final

The ESBF Champion of Champions final will take place at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London on , following a day of intensive coaching for the finalists on 12 November. The finalists will compete in two categories…

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Philip Le Feuvre is announced as new Chief Executive Officer at NCFE

These appointments mark a transition into a new era.  We will never forget David, but I am confident that he would have been as delighted as I am to entrust the organisation he loved so much to the leadership of Philip…

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Artist returns to college that gave her the most ‘influential years’ of her life

Now, the well-known local artist has completed the circle by creating a painting on the external windows of the Hemel Hempstead campus of the college. Mary’s piece ‘Old Town/The Water Gardens’ is a colourful portrait of…

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‘Every family has silences’: Kathryn Hunter on despair, desire, dislodgeable limbs – and her acting genius

She hates having to keep still: "It's torture." On aeroplanes, she is always in the aisle, bobbing up and down. She has an inner restlessness, an energy looking for the right outlet – one that even eight hours of…

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Skills England Chair visits JTL’s West Midlands centre to see apprenticeship training in action

The visit comes against a backdrop of growing employer demand for skilled electricians and plumbers, as JTL’s own research shows the UK’s electrical workforce remains 25% smaller than in 2018 and on course to shrink by a…

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Goldman Sachs Gives and Sir Richard Harpin back North East pilot to build blueprint for enterprise education

New education pilot aims to tackle barriers to entrepreneurship in the North East and give young people better access to practical enterprise education. Goldman Sachs Gives and entrepreneur Sir Richard Harpin are…

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A moment that changed me: I was terrified of my own body – until a surprising 20-mile bike ride

And then I started to cry. Others were casually bopping past me, up and over like water around a stone. But I was stuck. Why can't I move? I thought. I was not always fit enough to trek 80 miles in the Alps. As a child…

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NEET doesn’t happen overnight: Reflections ahead of the Milburn review

These are serious concerns. But there is a danger that our attention begins too late, once a young person has already become disconnected from education, employment or training. An estimated 981,000 16 to 24-year-olds…

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Why pharma firms are going to Earth’s orbit in search of new cancer drugs

Inside one of them, tiny crystals of a potential cancer drug are being grown in the weightlessness of space. The others are testing heat protection materials and navigation systems for when the capsules plunge back…

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The next global pandemic could be brewing on a mink farm in Utah – and little is being done to stop it | George Monbiot

A really bad disaster movie, in which the levels of carelessness and turpitude defy belief. A report by the investigative news service ProPublica reveals that bird flu has been raging in a mink farm in Utah since August…

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