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We must focus on young people’s skills to solve the current jobs mismatch

You’d be forgiven for thinking there are no job opportunities at all for our young people today if you focused on current headlines. But I think that there’s a big issue here that is getting too little attention. What if there are jobs there that organisations can’t fill because applicants just don’t have the right skills?

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How can we make the UK a global innovation hub?

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The end of regeneration is just the beginning

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Keeping sight of the vision

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Culture change

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Riots: what role trust, sense of place, belonging?

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A Little Patch of Ground

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Dispatches from the frontline

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Rhyme and reason

Tony Walsh left a career in regeneration behind to pursue his passion for poetry. But the two have more in common than he ever imagined, as Austin Macauley discovers

Career change, re-training opportunities, searching for new avenues – these are terms we’ve become increasingly familiar with as the unemployment toll rises.