Affinity Workforce Solutions acquires Training Toolz in first move beyond recruitment
The deal brings CandidateGo and Training Schoolz into Affinity Workforce’s portfolio of brands. Training Schoolz has been rebranded Affinity Elevate, an all-in-one platform for staff training, compliance management and…
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Big tech says AI can find a cure for cancer. So where is it?
With her liver failing, her skin was a ghostly apricot. June – I called her Nan – had been stalked by the king of terrors, the emperor of all maladies: cancer. That son of a bitch . The cancer was in her pancreas. Odds…
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Students invited to imagine Tomorrow’s World for National Innovation Challenge 2027
Led by HRUC (Harrow, Richmond and Uxbridge Colleges) in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Industrial Liaison Program, the National Innovation Challenge (NIC) aims to empower young people…
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Scientists discover why Kent meningitis outbreak was so severe
More than 20 young people, mostly students, were infected in the March outbreak , linked to a Canterbury nightclub. All needed hospital treatment, while nine ended up in intensive care and two died. Experts at the UK…
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Where futures begin: Deeside Sixth celebrates a decade of changing lives
The £14.6 million centre opened in September 2016, officially unveiled by First Minister Carwyn Jones as a state-of-the-art home for post-16 education in Flintshire. A decade on, it has helped hundreds of young people…
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The Freelance Education Alliance – A Collective Voice For Future Freelancers Goes Live
Now comes the tricky second album: producing real impact. Earlier this year, a collection of FE, HE, policymakers and industry leaders launched the Framework with the ambition of giving education a more consistent and…
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Lots of free learning opportunities across Wales for Adult Learners’ Week
Hundreds of free online and in-person courses, events, activities and learning opportunities are being offered across Wales to boost people’s career prospects, skills, confidence and wellbeing. Adult learning providers…
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Why the CDC is excluding measles deaths in Pennsylvania even as outbreak appears to be ‘accelerating’
Members of Congress on Monday requested an "immediate briefing" on the decision to change how measles deaths are reported as cases continue to rise throughout the United States, reaching levels not seen in decades. A…
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University of Salford inspires future sustainable engineers in communities hardest hit by inequality
More than 200 Year five pupils from primary schools across Salford and Blackburn have taken part in an interactive programme, introducing them to sustainable engineering, green construction and the vital role engineers…
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ONS Launches New Education Resources To Strengthen Statistical Literacy With Navigating Numbers Programme
The new resources are part of the Office for National Statistic’s Navigating Numbers programme : a set of education toolkits for students aged 16 years and over, centred around ONS datasets that relate to a part of…
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