Event – Barnsley Open Space: Leadership Development Event
Thursday 21 May 2009, University Campus Barnsley
This event has been organised by West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network and is supported by Higher Futures, amongst other partners.
Apprenticeships – Bids invited for share of £7m apprenticeships funding(DIUS, 27 April 2009)
Businesses and training providers are being encouraged to bid for funding from a pot of £7 million to take on apprenticeships in the downturn, Apprenticeships Minister Lord Young announced today.
Higher education – Thousands may miss degree places(BBC, 23 April 2009)
An extra 42,367 people have applied to do full-time undergraduate courses across the UK this year: about four times the extra places available.
Higher education – Oh no, we’re heading for the new iron age(Guardian, 28 April 2009)
Cuts to higher education funding could have been worse, but will still strike hard.
Higher education – Outsiders required to deliver economic impact(Times Higher Education, 1 May 2009)
Universities should recruit more staff from outside higher education to bolster the sector’s economic impact during the recession, according to the National Endowment or Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta).
Regional – Snapshot of the region’s economy(Yorkshire Forward, 24 April 2009)
Our latest survey of business confidence, published in April 2009, reveals the facts about business concerns and expectations in Yorkshire and Humber.
Skills – The Training Game(Guardian, 21 April 2009)
Guardian skills and training supplement, in association with Lifelong Learning UK.
Skills – Young jobless guaranteed jobs or training under Budget(Telegraph, 23 April 2009)
Unemployed young people out of work for more than a year will be guaranteed a job or a place in training after the jobless figures hit their highest level since Labour came to power.
Skills – Budget: Ministers aiming to harness job skills (Yorkshire Post, 23 April 2009)
A job, training or a work placement will be guaranteed for anyone under the age of 25 who has been out of work for a year.
Student finance – Student Income and Expenditure Survey 2007/08(DIUS, 21 April 2009)
The latest survey outlining students’ income, spending and saving has been published today by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.
Vocational education – VQ Day (Guardian, 28 April 2009)
Guardian VQ Day supplement, in association with the Edge Foundation.
Event – 2nd Annual Widening Participation Research Conference
‘Mainstreaming Equality in Higher Education? Can practice influence and develop more meaningful policy?’
Tuesday 2 June 2009, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk
