Skills - I'm a celebrity... get me a (second) career!(Learning and Skills Council, 21 December 2007)
Increasing numbers of celebrities are actively seeking new skills and launching second careers in a bid to safeguard against the ever-present threat of diminishing celebrity status.
Skills - City puts on kinder face to help raise skills (Financial Times, 24 December 2007)
The number of City of London staff joining charitable projects sponsored by their employers jumped by 40 per cent this year as the Square Mile boosted its efforts to both behave more altruistically and promote a skilled local workforce.
Skills - Jobless will have to sign a skills training contract or lose benefit (Times Online, 26 December 2007)
A twin attack on the benefit culture by tackling the hard-core unemployed and stopping teenage dependency on handouts will be announced by Gordon Brown next week in plans for a "new welfare state".
Skills - Brown to focus on skills training in welfare switch (Financial Times, 2 January 2008)
Cash incentives for skills training will be offered to unemployed people under a "reformed New Deal" in an attempt to change the focus of the welfare state, Gordon Brown will signal today.
Training - Discovering Potential (NIACE) course
16 January 2008, BVSC, Birmingham
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