20 h. ago New apprentices officially start their careers in North Lanarkshire

Mears has taken on 36 new apprentices in North Lanarkshire, showing its ongoing commitment to training skilled workers for the future.

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62 h. ago Lack of skilled workers worsening London housing crisis, says deputy mayor

Lack of skilled workers worsening London housing crisis, says deputy mayor  Waltham Forest Echo

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63 h. ago British travellers warned over $250 'tourist fee' for US trips

British holidaymakers heading to the United States are being warned of a newly introduced 'Visa Integrity Fee' that could set certain visitors back $250. 

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6 d. ago South Australia looking for UK workers to fill skills shortage

The state is on a recruitment drive in the UK

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8 d. ago China’s new visa opens doors for foreign talent just as Trump tightens H

As Washington makes it harder for foreign talent to enter the country, Beijing is going the opposite way by changing its visa rules for first time in over a decade. Shweta Sharma reports

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1 week ago Trump attack on specialist visa hits its biggest beneficiaries: tech titans

Silicon Valley bosses, many of whom used the H-1B visa themselves, are alarmed about new $100,000 application fee

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1 week ago The country bucking the Trump trend – and making it easier for migrants to live there

As Donald Trump proudly cracks down on immigration and Nigel Farage stirs discontent about migrants in the UK, New Zealand has introduced a visa policy to help plug gaps in the workforce

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1 week ago New Zealand just made it easier for skilled migrants to gain residency as record number of citizens leave

New visa policy to help in plugging workforce gaps

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1 week ago Trump's $100k visa fee for skilled workers puts US at risk of recession, analysts warn

A new $100,000 fee for skilled worker visas introduced by President Donald Trump will weigh on economic growth, according to an investment bank.

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3 w. ago Hundreds of prison officers may have to leave UK after Labour’s visa rule change

Prison Officers’ Association says change in eligibility for skilled work visas is ‘disgraceful’ and ‘pandering to Reform’ Hundreds of foreign prison officers will lose their jobs and could be forced to return to their home countries at short notice because of a change in visa rules introduced by Labour, governors and a union have warned.More than 1,000 staff, mainly from African countries, have been sponsored by prisons across England and Wales allowing them to come to the UK on skilled worker visas. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘His team loved and revered him’: Harry Potter director David Yates pays tribute to production designer Stuart Craig

Craig was an artist of literally towering achievements, in films from The English Patient to Harry Potter, whose kindness won the loyalty of the huge teams he led• Stuart Craig, Oscar-winning production designer, dies aged 83Stuart Craig was a softly spoken, gentle soul – full of grace, tall, slender, willowy, polite and kind – but despite appearances he masterfully stewarded a gigantic industrial creative machine. The art department for Harry Potter was huge, and Stuart guided teams across multiple skill sets – concept artists, prop makers, construction workers, painters and decorators, plasterers and model makers – to realise the fabric and architecture of JK Rowling’s world.It wasn’t unusual to be standing with him on one of his enormous inspiring sets, the Magical Congress of the United States of America in New York or the courtyard of Hogwarts, which towered multiple storeys high, and for Stuart to suddenly be distracted and laser-focused on the texture of a tile, or the colour...

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