Event - Economic Challenge Investment Fund (ECIF) client event
This will take place on Thursday 22nd April 2010 at the Cutlers Hall, Sheffield.
Further details will be available shortly
Train to Gain - Train to gain helps businesses of all sizes fight recession (BIS, 4 February 2010)
Business leaders have hailed the Government’s flagship Train to Gain programme, saying it has helped them provide vital training to their staff during the downturn.
Work-based learning - Right to request training (Unionlearn, 3 February 2010)
The new right to request training will be in operation from April 6 2010.
Adult learning - New Thinking for a Changing Population (BIS, 3 February 2010)
Older people bring skills and experience to the workplace that can be an asset to business and their spending power can boost the wider economy.
Higher education - Universities face crisis as cuts crash in on academia (The Guardian, 8 February 2010)
The threat of compulsory redundancies looming over lecture halls and research laboratories at Leeds University has driven professors and lecturers into impassioned union meetings this week.
Higher education - HEFCE announces funding for universities and colleges in 2010-11 (HEFCE, 1 February 2010)
HEFCE announced today the main decisions made by the Board at its meeting on 28 January on the provisional distribution of funding to universities and colleges in 2010-11.
Further education - Colleges facing ‘bigger cuts than universities’ (Public Finance, 4 February 2010)
Universities should stop ‘bleating’ about funding cuts because squeezed budgets will have a worse impact on further education provision, college leaders have said.
Further education - Colleges face adult course cuts (BBC, 2 February 2010)
Further education colleges in England face an average budget cut of 16% for adult learning, the Association of Colleges claims.
Further education - IfL welcomes assessment-only route to QTS for FE teachers (IFL, 1 February 2010)
The Institute for Learning (IfL) has welcomed the introduction of an assessment-only route to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), the accreditation for qualified teachers in state-maintained and special schools.
Apprenticeships - John Denham urges councils to create 3000 more apprenticeships(Communities and local government, 2 February 2010)
Three thousand more apprenticeships could be created if all local councils simply performed at the average level according to new snapshot findings Communities Secretary John Denham said today.
Apprenticeships - Government celebrates apprenticeships and urges business to recruit in the recovery (BIS, 1 February 2010)
The government today launched National Apprenticeship Week, celebrating the commitment of employers to recruit apprentices and urging people to look at the benefits to their skills and career of becoming an apprentice.
Apprenticeships - Government celebrates Apprenticeships and urges business to recruit in the recovery (Apprenticeships, 1 February 2010)
The government today launched National Apprenticeship Week, celebrating the commitment of employers to recruit apprentices and urging people to look at the benefits to their skills and career of becoming an apprentice.
Higher education - University applications up 23% (BBC, 8 February 2010)
The number of students wanting to go to university in the UK this year rose by more than a fifth, new figures show.
Higher education - University budget cuts revealed (BBC, 1 February 2010)
England's university budgets are being cut by £449m, leading student places to be reduced by an estimated 6,000 in the next academic year.
Sectors: Early years - Trainers to benefit from new disability awareness training website (CWDC, 1 February 2010)
The Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) is calling for all trainers in England who provide disability awareness training to register their details on a new website.
Sectors - Creative and media - Film Minister launches Pinewood apprenticeship scheme (dcms, 4 February 2010)
A new apprenticeship scheme designed to give young people a start in the UK’s thriving film industry was launched at Pinewood Studios by film Minister Siôn Simon today.
