Also, Simon Midgley reports on how times are changing in the word of construction, where women are joining men on the building sites. IT training boost THE millions of untrained users of information technology in the workplace are being targeted in a drive to improve their skills. Councils may regain lost college powers Ministers have told local education authorities they have a legal right to bid for some of the control over colleges they lost eight years ago. It is bad luck if you live in Nottinghamshire, where the Government has put the legend of Robin Hood into reverse by taking money away from some of its poorest inhabitants. As lecturers' pay slips further behind that of school teachers, unions demand a 3000 across the board rise.
Some people think that only the law can break Britain's low-skills culture.
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