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Your Move appoint meta-morphose International to recruit and train financial consultants

Your Move estate agency has appointed meta-morphose International to recruit and train a team of up to sixty financial consultants over a 12-month period. Successful candidates will be given intensive training to pass the required CeMAP qualification.

£50 million wasted on e-University says report

A report by the Education and Skills Committee has condemned the DFES’s online degree scheme as a 'disgraceful waste' of tens of millions of pounds of public money. Their investigation found that, at a cost of £44,000 per student, studying with UK e-University was more expensive than going to either Oxford or Cambridge.

The online university was launched in September 2003 but after attracting just 900 students was eventually dismantled last year at a cost of £50 million. UKeU was intended as a vehicle for the delivery of UK Universities’ HE programmes over the internet. It was to be a single point of reference for all the UK universities and was to provide the technological platform to make it happen.

The committee said the Government should learn the lessons from UK e-University and develop a well rounded e-learning strategy to support Universities existing online projects.

Asset Skills launch in Scotland

Asset Skills, the Sector Skills Council (SSC) for property services, cleaning services, housing and facilities management, is hosting an event to announce its official launch in Scotland on Tuesday March 16, at the Scottish Parliament Building at Holyrood. The event is targeted at representatives of employers from across the sectors, training providers and awarding bodies.

Broadcaster Lesley Riddoch will host the event, which will feature an address from Allan Wilson, Deputy Minister for Enterprise & Lifelong Learning, who will talk about the skills issues facing business across Scotland. Asset Skills will be using the event to outline its strategy and progress to date.

"The main role of Asset Skills is to improve business productivity by driving up standards and skills in the property, housing, cleaning and facilities management sectors," said Steven Proudfoot, UK Development Director and Head of Asset Skills Scotland.

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