The lack of skilled labour in manufacturing will hamper small firms’ ability to meet demand, according to the UK’s largest...
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Leading employer Compass threatens to review relationship with hospitality sector skills council People 1st
by Mike Berryby Mike BerryThe leading employer in the catering and hospitality industry has threatened to scale back support for sector skills council People...
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Why aren’t employers paying more attention to developing their leaders (Personnel Today, 26 June)? It seems self-evident that continually building the...
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As Gordon Brown jetted off to the US to see president Bush last week, Guru wondered whether the prime minister...
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Train to Gain system is too complex, says Commons education and skills committee
by Mike Berryby Mike BerryThe government’s flagship Train to Gain programme is “too bureaucratic” and overly complex, according to the Commons education and skills...
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The Employability Skills programme has been launched today by employment minister Caroline Flint and skills minister David Lammy.The scheme is...
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The government has announced a renewed skills drive to help deliver its ambitious housing reforms, published earlier this week.
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Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has launched a £227,000 Opportunity Fund project called Skills for Food. The scheme will provide catering...
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Former CBI chief Dibgy, Lord Jones of Birmingham, has admitted that his skills envoy job was only half finished when...
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Freelancers, the self-employed and small business owners – nearly four million people – have been left out of the government’s skills...
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ConstructionSkills, the skills council for the construction industry, has announced that it will provide a record £140m in grants for...
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Health services in the UK will get a major boost through an annual allocation of £100m of additional funds to...
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The government has called for a ‘skills revolution’ in its official response to the Leitch Review, setting out what it...
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We predicted at the beginning of this year that skills would be a top priority for businesses in 2007.Half way...
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The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) has missed a “real opportunity” to make the radical curriculum changes needed to give...