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		<title>Employability</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A 2008 survey* showed that employers consider communication to be the most important skill for young people entering their first job as well as being good at timekeeping, having good English and Maths skills and showing enthusiasm and commitment. However, not everyone leaves school having successfully gained all of the skills and qualifications to successful convince employers of their ‘employability’.]]></description>
		
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		<title>LGBT Month &#8211; Homophobia and Sport</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans History Month takes place every year in February. It celebrates the lives and achievements of the LGBT community. Homophobia is the irrational hatred, intolerance, and fear of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people. Transphobia refers to various kinds of aversions towards transsexuality and transsexual or transgendered people. Most often it takes the form [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Learning difficulty and disability in Apprenticeships</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Long-term study1 shows that too few young people with learning difficulties and or disabilities (LLDD), progress from school to post-16 education settings, that support and improve independence, skills for living and work and or employment.  Is this a matter of insufficient funding by Government, avoidance or lack of awareness by employers and training providers or [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Apprenticeships &#8211; who should foot the bill?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 21:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here’s two facts: Fact 1: 55% of this year’s graduates will end up unemployed or taking a job that doesn’t specifically require a degree.* Fact 2: An average undergraduate course is expected to jump to £9000 a year.* Put these two facts together and it’s fair to assume that for school leavers, Apprenticeships, with their promise [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Apprenticeships &#8211; A New Landscape?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We all have our own views on the best ways to learn and develop skills; often informed by our own learning experiences positive or negative. By the time we are 16 and thinking of leaving school we face some of the most daunting choices we ever make about our lifelong learning. Apprenticeships has always been [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Inclusive Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Inclusive learning is about making sure that everyone gets the best possible chances to achieve their goals so they can do the things they want to do.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Young People&#8217;s Equality and Human Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our ‘human rights&#8217; are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world. The idea of human rights has been around for centuries, but following the ‘Holocaust’ during ‘World War II’, a stronger and international support for human rights emerged. The United Nations adopted the ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wellbeing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recent media discussion on young people&#8217;s health and wellbeing has focussed on issues such as poor diet, obesity and eating disorders, substance misuse and binge drinking, smoking, depression and behavioural problems. In January this year we blogged about teenage mental health and learners gave us their opinions on this important health subject; many talked of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Digital Citizenship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Internet today offers great scope for learning, creating and connecting with friends and family and people all over the world. The British Royal Family has its own YouTube channel, and the Queen broadcast her Christmas message online. However, parents and educators alike are understandably concerned about illegal and anti-social behaviour online. Online safety is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Teenage Mental Health</title>
		<link>https://tpmnow.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/teenage-mental-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We all have a mental health status and our language and communication is peppered with references to this. Common everyday statements like ‘it’s doing my head in’, ‘my head hurts’, ‘I feel really stressed-out today’, may have more information than we take sufficient notice of. The UK charity, Mental Health Foundation, reports that anxiety disorders [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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