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School teaches us many things. How to read, write, communicate, how to understand science, maths. It tells us how to write a good CV, how to do well in an interview, even. But what it doesn’t teach us is how absolutely exhausting it is to work a ‘9 to 5’.

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Derby PR and communications agency Nielsen McAllister has appointed its first apprentice, providing a new route into the industry for young people interested in a career in PR.

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Words don’t come easily for someone like me who has not put my writing skills into practice for many years, so for my first blog, I wanted to keep it simple and talk about something I think is important but equally relatable...

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Today, I was fortunate enough to have been invited to visit Derby’s Museum of Making, in the Silk Mill, just before its official opening, this Friday. And it made me cry a little.

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Becoming an apprentice was something I had never anticipated. Throughout my entire life, teachers pushed me down the path of academia, and university seemed to be my only smart option...

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As shops across the country flung open their doors and spending on non-essentials was permitted – even encouraged – I ventured out!

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