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Radio 4,11 Mar 2015,45 mins

British Cars, Lifelong Learning, Unimpressive Discounts

You and Yours

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The government is encouraging us to work for longer, review our careers and retrain throughout our working life. Yet Colleges say that cuts to further education budgets mean they will no longer be able to provide the classes that used to help people return to the workplace and gain new skills. We talk to skills minister Nick Boles about the cuts and their consequences. As the number of UK-built cars exported to Asia trebles in five years, You and Yours investigates just how British those cars are. And the rise in unspectacular discounts. What's the psychology behind those "special offers" that amount to a penny off.

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