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• UK’s top companies looking to get involved in ‘Business Class’

  22 Jul 2013

  Prudential hosted a breakfast event on the 18 July to talk about their involvement in BiTC’s ‘Business Class’ programme and encourage other employers to get involved. Delegates from companies such as Kingfisher, the Met Office, Deloitte LLP, M&S and Shell UK heard how the programme creates long-term strategic partnerships between schools and businesses for mutual benefit.

• Financial services sector sets out to enhance leadership with major call to action

  18 Jul 2013

  The financial services sector took a bold move to shape its future as the industry’s skills body, the Financial Skills Partnership, showcased Leadership 21st Century (21C) at the House of Commons.

• Professionalising the employability sector

  26 Jun 2013

  The UK Commission has helped to create a professional body to increase the skills and enhance the careers of practitioners working to get jobseekers and the unemployed into work.

• Society of Biology celebrates accredited degrees at annual awards ceremony

  24 Jun 2013

  Bioscience degrees at the University of Manchester, the University of York and the Royal Veterinary College have been accredited by the Society of Biology in the first wave of accreditations since the programme’s pilot in 2012. These degrees have been acknowledged for their academic excellence and commitment to developing graduate employability skills.

• Leading employers and e-skills to launch Cyber Security Apprenticeships

  20 May 2013

  Supported by co-investment from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, leading employers are working with e-skills UK to develop the first ever nationally available, degree-level apprenticeships in cyber security.

• e-skills UK creates over 300 new IT jobs for young people

  10 May 2013

  A partnership between the National Skills Academy for IT, training provider NITP, and BT has created a total of 313 new IT apprenticeships since October last year. The project received co-investment from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills via the Growth and Innovation Fund.
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  IMI Professional Register now live!

  9 May 2013

  The IMI’s Professional Register is now live and searchable by motorists at www.imiregister.org.uk. If you are ATA registered or a member of the IMI, it is more than likely that your name and place of work will be displayed. Because of this, the IMI is calling on all automotive professionals that are listed on the register to check and, if necessary, update their details to make the most of the opportunities it provides

• ‘The Skills Platform’ to revolutionise training for charities and social enterprises

  8 May 2013

  Today, Skills- Third Sector kicks off a co-design process to create an innovative digital platform where charities and social enterprises can more easily find and compare training and other skills support

• New careers website a “game changer” for passenger transport and travel employers

  18 Apr 2013

  People 1st has launched a brand new website to promote the fantastic career opportunities available in passenger transport and travel.

• Business and school partnerships in action

  28 Mar 2013

  On Thursday 18 March, 11 students from Sir John Thursby Community College Burnley took over the running of the Holiday Inn Express, their Business Class partner for the day. Business Class is a Business in the Community Programme, the expansion and enhancement of which has been supported by investment from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. It creates long term partnerships between businesses and schools.