They report that those young people most likely to miss out on vocational education and training include those with disabilities, young people still living at home, children from single-parent families and those families with a history of parental unemployment. Gillian Considine, Ian Watson, Richard Hall explore access to vocational education and training (and university) currently...

The labour hire industry likes to portray its business as the provision of flexible labour to help employers cope with fluctuations in demand, a short term need for specialist skills, or the covering of staff absences. But according to Richard Hall the reality is that over the past ten years the labour hire industry in...