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Why are work placements so important? They are an incredibly valuable opportunity for students, particularly for those who may not yet have part-time work experience. In my opinion, they play a crucial role in helping…
"I was a little bit chubby and I started to work out at home and lose weight. I saw the difference in my body: my abs, the muscles in my arms, and I started liking it," she says. By 31, she had the slim, toned body she…
Four major businesses have joined the college’s employer skills academies programme this academic year. The employer skills academies provide students with industry-led learning experiences as part of the curriculum to…
Launched in autumn 2025, the Employer Pledge calls on businesses across South Wales to offer young learners work experience, placements or apprenticeships within their organisations. Since its launch, hundreds of…
How about adding a link online to how people can donate their own or a connected person's body in the UK, together with giving blood or plasma in life? When our brother died in the 1960s, our parents agreed that any…
Instead of following the traditional full-time university route, Nathan secured a highly competitive Solicitor Degree Apprenticeship, spending four days a week gaining practical experience in London while studying for…
The appointments were meant to stabilize the agency after the previous CDC director, Susan Monarez , left less than a month into the job – publicly describing the directives of the health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr…
Once a completely innocuous food that no one really talked about, they have become the enemy of the moment. Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of health and human services in the US, has called them "toxic" and vowed to…
Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2015, the software engineer has bounced between startups and giants including Netflix , Facebook and GitHub. But when it came to the education of his daughter, Victoria, he…
We are home to the UK’s largest carbon-emitting industrial cluster. That presents an obvious challenge, but it also means nowhere has a greater opportunity to make a difference to the country’s net zero ambitions. We…