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• Funding green light for scheme to make young people more employable

  5 Oct 2012

  More employable young learners, whose talent and potential is helping employers to secure a more successful future for their business; these will be the end results of a SummitSkills project which has just secured funding from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES).

• Cash incentive for manufacturers to create 200 full-time jobs for graduates

  25 Sep 2012

  An additional 200 graduates are expected to be recruited by businesses in the advanced manufacturing and engineering sector across the UK after funds to support their employment and training were announced today.

• New Skills Ambassadors announced for the creative and cultural industries

  19 Sep 2012

  Creative & Cultural Skills is delighted to announce the appointment of the 12 new Skills Ambassadors, based within the creative sector around the country, supported through co-investment from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.

• £165m skills boost from Employer Ownership Pilot

  11 Sep 2012

  Siemens, Sembcorp and Nissan are some of the 34 businesses that have successfully bid to design the vocational training programmes they need to grow and create tens of thousands of opportunities for young people, Business Secretary Vince Cable announced today.

• Hubcap to provide a well rounded solution to Motor Industry careers practitioners

  10 Sep 2012

  The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) announced the launch of a new online resource and community for Careers and Academic Professionals this week, available through the organisation’s Autocity website (www.autocity.org.uk).

• People 1st Scotland Launches Inspirational Skills Legacy 2014

  3 Sep 2012

  People 1st, the sector skills council for hospitality, passenger transport, travel and tourism, has launched a new programme to improve skills in Scotland in the lead up to the major cultural and sporting events Scotland the nation will host in 2014.

• Fall in total number of students taking ICT GCSEs reinforces demand for new curriculum

  24 Aug 2012

  Following a hugely successful pilot, e-skills UK announced earlier this summer that the ‘Behind the Screen’ programme will be available to all schools from September 2012. It offers a series of projects, presented as interactive online materials, and supported by full teachers’ notes. The projects are developed in close consultation with employers, and are based on real life business issues.

• Careers information and advice in the spotlight

  16 Aug 2012

  With so many different ways available to access information on career options and opportunities, it is increasingly important for individuals to know where help is readily available particularly during and after exam results time. The National Careers Council, chaired by UK Commissioner Dr Deirdre Hughes, OBE, is putting the spotlight on careers information and advice for young people and adults in England.

• Technical Apprenticeship Service one of first ATAs to be approved by the National Apprenticeship Service

  8 Aug 2012

  The Cogent Technical Apprenticeship Service is delighted to announce that it has become one of the elite few Apprenticeship Training Agencies to complete the rigorous recognition process, conducted by the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS).

• Asset Skills launches new careers website

  7 Aug 2012

  A new careers website dedicated to promoting jobs and training in facilities management, property, energy assessment, housing, cleaning and parking has been launched by Asset Skills.