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• A climate of fear: employees face greater stress and job insecurity while working harder

  20 May 2013

  Britain’s employees are feeling more insecure and pressured at work than at any time in the past 20 years, national survey results published today (Monday, 20 May) show. The findings are based on face-to-face interviews with 3,000 workers aged 20 to 60.

• Industry-led apprenticeship scheme launched to help bridge skills gap

  19 Mar 2013

  An industry-led apprenticeship programme to boost training opportunities in food and farming and help young people develop careers in agriculture has been launched.

• UK’s changing recruitment practices fail young jobseekers, report finds

  18 Mar 2013

  Catch 22 situation ‘No job, no experience- No experience, no job’ and growth in word-of-mouth recruitment keep young people out of work.

• Report calls for incentive boost for Apprenticeships

  14 Mar 2013

  Businesses should receive incentives to boost the delivery of high quality apprenticeships, according to a report published today by the government’s skills experts, the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.

• Applications open for £240 million skills fund

  6 Feb 2013

  Businesses across all sectors and of all sizes can now apply for a share of up to £240 million to create tailored training programmes that address their specific skills needs.

• Business school partnership scheme set to expand with £2.4 million UKCES investment

  21 Jan 2013

  A scheme which pairs up leading businesses with schools in some of the UK’s most deprived areas is set to expand following a £2.4 million investment from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES). At an event at Jaguar Land Rover’s flagship Halewood Plant in Merseyside today, HRH The Prince of Wales, President of Business in the Community, will announce that his charity has been awarded funding to enable it to expand its successful Business Class programme into 135 more areas of the UK.

• Sector Skills Alliance appoints Mark Froud as MD

  8 Jan 2013

  SECTOR SKILLS ALLIANCE PRESS RELEASE: Former CEO of Sussex Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise Mark Froud has taken up his new role as Managing Director of the Alliance of Sector Skills Councils (Alliance).

• Bristol businesses invited to bid for £240million to build workforce skills

  14 Dec 2012

  Employers in Bristol will learn how they can benefit from a share of £240 million to improve their training activities at a workshop next week.

• Young, optimistic and responsible : The recession-born businesses changing the face of the jobs market

  12 Dec 2012

  Businesses born in the depths of the recession are more optimistic and demonstrate greater commitment to developing their people than their more established counterparts, according to one of the largest surveys of its kind ever published in the UK.

• Birmingham businesses invited to bid for £150 million to build workforce skills

  10 Dec 2012

  Employers in Birmingham will learn how they can benefit from a share of a £150 million pot to improve their training activities at two upcoming workshops.