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Global Skills Wire — Issue 15, 2026
Latest: The OECD's new comparative VET study highlights the importance of social partnership in governance; while American workforce specialists commit…
May 21
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ANALYSIS: The pricing game inside England's qualifications market
Awarding body dominance and monopolistic government reforms are bigger factors in educational price strategies than concerns about competition, writes…
May 15
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Global Skills Wire — Issue 14, 2026
Latest: Sir Keir Starmer attempts to save his premiership; Spain green-lights eight new VET qualifications, and the World Bank warns one in five young…
May 14
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Global Skills Wire — Issue 13, 2026
Latest: Australia continues record investment in TAFE; Canada aims to reduce the time to complete a trade apprenticeship by 50 per cent; and the EU…
May 7
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EXCLUSIVE: New CGLI chair in 'fake CV' row
Jessica Leigh-Jones made claims about a patent that was never granted and secured a £770k public loan using a 'placeholder company', raising fresh…
May 3
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April 2026
Global Skills Wire — Issue 12, 2026
Latest: Singapore keeps hold of its world-beating status in skills policy reform; Africa's youth are set for a services boom, overtaking agricultural…
Apr 28
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Global Skills Wire — Issue 11, 2026
Latest: California hits apprenticeship targets after a six-fold increase in the budget; the EU sets out its vocational skills agenda for the next four…
Apr 23
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Global Skills Wire — Issue 10, 2026
Latest: Free tertiary education becomes a reality down under; the EU gets its skills cheque book out, South Africa enters the fourth industrial…
Apr 21
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OpenAI sketches new industrial policy for the age of ‘super intelligence’
Sam Altman’s OpenAI has published a striking new report that reads more like an opening bid in the coming political struggle over artificial…
Apr 19
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Existential: South Africa's Youth Jobs Crisis
Two-thirds of under 24-year-olds in the post-apartheid state have no job and little hope. Tom Bewick, wrapping up a long assignment in Cape Town…
Apr 18
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Global Skills Wire — Issue 9, 2026
Latest: Fallout over City & Guilds privatisation deepens. US Department of Labor boosts state programs, Japan goes back to the 'Ice Age' and India gears…
Apr 16
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BREAKING: City & Guilds Members Force Independent Inquiry Vote
City & Guilds members vote decisively to demand from Trustees that they instigate an independent inquiry into the controversial privatised sale of the…
Apr 15
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