Sir Mike Rake, Chairman, UK Commission for Employment & Skills“The Doomsday scenario is we could find ourselves by 2020 with six million people unemployable in the UK. I don’t have to tell you what the social and economic implications would be.”
unionlearn, the TUC’s learning and skills organisation, will launch a new animated film called Kate and Umar’s Incredible Learning Journey. Featuring cartoon characters of Lily Allen and the Levellers, the ten-minute animation is intended to reach new aud
A south East Cornwall facility that has given military personnel, civilian staff and their families the chance to improve their qualifications online has won an award for its service.HMS Raleigh won the best performing Royal Navy and Royal Marine Learndir
Just when it seemed that progress had been made to encourage young workers to upgrade their skills and to persuade employers to take training seriously, this is undermined by those who seem determined to ridicule all efforts to recognise learning in the w
he National Skills Academy for Nuclear will be officially launched by the Skills Minister David Lammy and the Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks, in an event at the Science Museum, London on the 31st January.
The UK skills black hole is widening with a 50 per cent slide in IT students over the last five years and 140,000 new recruits needed to satisfy demand, according to IT skills body e-skills.
Teacher trainees in further education do not systematically identify or address the literacy, numeracy and language needs of their students, and some are constrained by their own weaknesses in these skills, the government’s schools inspector warned today.
New research highlights critical importance of IT & Telecoms to UK and urgent need to invest in skills
Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he wants to see one in five young people on apprenticeships within 10 years, in a push to win the global "skills race".
Leading business figures call on the government to engage to unlock talent
A facility at HMS Raleigh in Cornwall giving military personnel, civilian staff and their families the chance to improve their qualifications online has been given an award as the best performing Royal Navy and Royal Marine (RN/RM) Learndirect Centre for
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