News - Minister praises 'on your bike' effort to combat downturn (Sheffield Star, 13 January 2009)
Article covering David Lammy's visit to Sheffield Hallam University. His visit to Higher Futures and Aimhigher South Yorkshire is also briefly mentioned.
Event - Social Care Careers and Progression Seminar (with Aimhigher South Yorkshire)
Thursday 5 February 2009, Skills for Business, Hillsborough Barracks, Sheffield
Providing information for teachers and IAG professionals on education and training routes into the social care sector.
Apprenticeships - £140 million apprenticeship boost (Number 10, 7 January 2009)
The Government is to invest £140 million to create a further 35,000 apprenticeships in 2009-10, the Prime Minister has said.
Lifelong learning - Creative, flexible systems are key to lifelong learning(Times Higher, 8 January 2009)
Universities need to "show more imagination" to create a culture of lifelong learning in the higher education sector, Sir David Watson said this week.
Skills - Think tank: a wiser way to plug the skills gap(Times, 21 December 2008)
Opinion piece: A call for individuals to run training accounts, by Richard Reeves, Director of Demos think tank.
Skills - Jobs and skills top of regional agenda(BERR, 5 January 2009)
Employment and skills will be top of the agenda when the Prime Minister meets leading business and regional figures at the Regional Economic Council today.
Skills - New economic unions to boost local skills and jobs (Communities and Local Government, 12 January 2009)
Merseyside, Leicestershire and the Pennines will be devolved more local autonomy to deliver home-grown economic resilience, jobs and skills plans, following the signing of three historic council partnership contracts by the Prime Minister and council leaders today.
Skills - Guaranteed extra help for people unemployed for six months (DIUS, 12 January 2009)
£83 million to offer around 75,000 people high quality training places to help them back into work over the next two years was announced today by Skills Secretary John Denham as part of the Government's new support package for people out of work.
Skills - New Opportunities webchat(Number 10, 12 January 2009)
Liam Byrne, Minister for the Cabinet Office, will take questions on social mobility and the Government's New Opportunities White Paper in a live Number 10 webchat on 20 January 2009 from 14:00 GMT.
Skills - Government to treble number of Career Development Loans (DIUS, 13 January 2009)
Measures to boost skills, fair access to education and pathways into work at the heart of Government's New Opportunities White Paper.
Skills - Gordon Brown's skills and training drive is a "dog's breakfast"(Telegraph, 16 January 2009)
A Commons committee report published today said that the complex system of interlinked public bodies, funding sources and rules for skills training is a "dog's breakfast, impenetrable to everyone apart from possibly a few civil servants and a handful of academics."
Skills - Reskilling 'priority in downturn'(BBC, 16 January 2009)
Retraining people who lose their jobs in the economic downturn must be made a priority, a committee of MPs has said.
Event - Mind the gap: 14-19 reforms, transition into higher education, and the role of information, advice and guidance
Wednesday 11 to Friday 13 March 2009, Hilton London Docklands. A draft programme is available online (PDF document). Please contact Debbie Payne with any queries, or for further information, at community@ssatrust.org.uk or on 020 7802 2382.
Survey - CWDC Apprenticeships Online Survey
The Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) would like view on the development of a common Apprenticeship across the youth workforce.
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