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The government is right to cut back on funding certain VET courses that have low-enrolment rates and are unlikely to lead to work.
New research shows private VET providers are ill-equipped to tackle the learning needs of vulnerable young people, who are increasingly being enrolled onto these training courses.
Why that fitness plan you saw online probably won’t help you lose as much weight as it claims.
For his fight with Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin, Kell Brook had to gain weight in just the right places.
Racewalking has been part of the Olympic Games since 1904, but gets little respect in the United States. That might change if Americans knew a little more about it.
Do you know how to tailor and target your work to gain the attention of people beyond your own peers – including funding assessors, politicians and the media? Learn how at this one-day masterclass.
A former Olympic gold medalist reflects on his own financial struggles as he trained and competed for the 1984 Games. Decades later, not much has changed for many Olympians.
Why less is more when it comes to exercise.
School and community sports coaches’ lack of knowledge about concussion leaves players vulnerable on the pitch.
Spare a thought for the cast of thousands that has to worry about player fitness and team logistics in a major sporting event.
Late maturing girls tend to be privileged in ballet training. This doesn’t have to be the case.
Doctors in South Africa have not been doing enough counselling of people who drink, smoke, don’t exercise and eat badly on ways to change their lifestyles.
New research shows bodybuilders’ muscle quality is lower than that of people who don’t train at all - but size is still a pretty good guide to strength.
One day in 1995, one man jumped farther than anyone else, before or since. How did he do it?
Polls show Americans have become less trusting and more suspicious.
Parents want to simultaneously support and push their kids. But when it comes to sports, this mentality can backfire in subtle ways.
Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act may have been “clarified” but there are concerns it could have a chilling effect on campus attitudes toward LGBTQ students and faculty across the state.
Recent weeks have seen various horror stories of the workings of dodgy private providers of vocational education and training, including the latest: a recall of certificates due to concerns of sub-par standards in these institutions.
Students collecting their GCSE results this summer will now be obliged to participate in education and training until at least the end of the academic year in which they turn 17. From the summer of 2015…
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