Education and Skills: Funding, Apprentices and Grammars

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Grammar Schools and Local Pupils

The recent announcement by the High School for Girls for new admissions criteria from 2018 is much more important than it sounds. The announcement is a moment of recognition by one of our leading Gloucester grammar schools that it (and the others) need to change.

Gloucester MP encourages pupils to visit Auschwitz

Gloucester MP Richard Graham has written to local secondary schools to encourage their sixth form pupils’ participation in the ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’ project run by the Holocaust Educational Trust. Richard said about the visits to World War Two concentration camp Auschwitz: “I went ther

Celebrating Gloucester’s growth of apprenticeships

In National Apprentice Week City MP Richard Graham thanked Gloucester employers in Parliament for creating 6,640 apprenticeships since 2010 – placing Gloucester 61st out of all 533 English constituencies. Richard said: “Last weekend at Skills Fest almost all the employers were looking to take on mo

The Return of the Apprentice

This week I want to share some stats with you that highlight the Return of the Apprentice in our city and county.

Congratulating the Rosebank Apprentice on McDonald's Award

Gloucester MP Richard Graham visited Rosebank Surgery on Stroud Road to congratulate their first apprentice Jodie Cook on winning the McDonald’s Award for Intermediate Apprentice of the Year for the South West, Thames Valley and Solent. Jodie, who started at Rosebank three years ago as th