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Dear readers,

Welcome to your first edition of The Raikes Journal of the week, the digital magazine focusing on Gloucestershire’s business community, its education, training and third sectors.

And speaking of education and training that’s the theme of today’s edition. Regular readers might recall a story we did just last month about the challenges around skills and apprenticeships.

We were lucky enough to speak to Andy Bates, of Gloucestershire College - one of the Founding Partners of Raikes - for our article that took a look at just one sector - cyber and the challenges it faced.

Today we’re back there again.

Why?

Partly because since then the Government has revealed its master plan to drive UK plc to greater growth and productivity. It’s solution is apprenticeships.

And on Wednesday Gloucestershire College stages an apprenticeship open evening.

Many businesses, it seems, are still not engaging, some schools, and some attitudes are not changing fast enough. The smart ones are already onboa…