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Minister for Higher Education, David Lammy, has praised colleges for tackling the problems of gangs, guns and knives.
Mr Lammy spoke at an event hosted by the Association of Colleges to launch the new Safe Colleges website.
It features guidance drawn up by colleges and the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), working with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Home Office.
A new £74m building at South Thames College, London, has been opened by the Minister for Further Education Kevin Brennan.
The project was financed by the Building Colleges for the Future programme, which since 2001 has funded more than 700 projects at nearly 300 colleges.
The new Wandsworth campus building includes industry-standard hair and beauty salons, a gymnasium, forensic science labs and music technology studios.
The Creativity and Business International Network conference, taking place between 26-28 October this year, will be bringing together creative businesses and leaders from around the globe to look at a number of key themes such as access to finance and securing creative content, along with developing talent and new business models.
Today, Business Secretary Lord Mandelson will call on business to play a greater part in shaping the education system of the future as it responds to the changing needs of new industries and new jobs.
Full story: Mandelson calls on business to help shape the future of education
We want your views on postgraduate provision in the UK. The review is looking at:
The Government has set out its plans to give Britain’s 1.3million agency workers a fairer deal in the workplace.
As agreed last year by the TUC and CBI, the changes will give agency workers the right to the same pay, holidays and basic conditions as permanent staff after 12 weeks on a given job.
Full story: Fairer Deal For Agency Workers
Laws and regulations play an essential role in making Britain a fair and safe society. Publication of the Forward Programme brings a new openness and clarity to the regulatory process and will enable decisions on new regulations to be taken in the context of the cumulative burden of the Government’s regulatory programme on business and the wider economy. This is more important than ever in the current economic environment.
Full story: The Government’s Forward Regulatory Programme
Today is Blog Action Day, an initiative which unites the world’s blogging community in posting about an issue to encourage discussion and action.
This year’s theme is Climate Change, an issue BIS and the Government is addressing by both seeking to cut emissions and also take advantage of new opportunities in low carbon technology.
UK National Contact Point for OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises is hosting a multi-stakeholder event on Monday 9 November 2009, 14:00 – 16:30, to discuss the proposed update of the Guidelines. The event is being held at the BIS Conference Centre.
Further information on UK National Contact Point Event (PDF, 75KB)
The Internet Watch Foundation is the UK internet ‘Hotline’ for the public to report their inadvertent exposure to online child sexual abuse content hosted anywhere in the world and criminally obscene and incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK.
For more information or to report a website visit www.iwf.org.uk.
Full story: IWF Awareness Day – 14 October
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