| National Apprenticeship Week Approaches |
| Monday, 25 January 2010 15:41 | This year's National Apprenticeship Week will take place from Monday 1 February to Friday 5 February 2010 and will celebrate the talents and skills of apprentices across England. National and regional activities will take place during the week involving employers, apprentices and providers and each day of the week will have a different focus. Activity includes: • Business and public sector leaders are going ‘back to the floor’ to experience a day in the life of an apprentice in their sector. • To highlight the community benefits of Apprenticeships employers and apprentices are taking part in ‘makeover challenges’. • To raise awareness of the different sectors Apprenticeships cover, apprentices will shadow key business and political figures. • On Thursday 21 January a conference titled ‘Apprenticeships Driving Business’ took place in London explaining in detail the business benefits of Apprenticeships. • To showcase the diverse range of 21st Century Apprenticeships, journalists are spending a day in the life of an apprentice. |
| Personal Skills Account Trials Show Encouraging Signs |
| Monday, 04 January 2010 14:46 | The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills before Christmas reported that trials involving the new Personal Skills Accounts have been a success. A recent survey shows that an overwhelming majority of people (94%) think that the new accounts are a good idea and more than three-quarters of respondents said that having a Skills Account would encourage them to take on more courses in the future. The Skills Accounts currently being piloted by the government are due to be rolled out in the autumn of this year. Click here for the full article. |
| Wednesday, 23 December 2009 10:49 | Britons are missing out on supermarket savings because of poor maths skillsBritons struggle to work out basic shopping discounts, according to new stats from the Get On campaign. When asked, nearly nine out of ten (87%) adults could not do the maths behind typical high street special offers.* Well over half (57%) could not work out how much a pack of sausages would cost if it had a third off and nearly half (43%) admitted they often won’t pick up discounts because they don’t understand if they’re getting a good deal or not. With over a third of adults (34%) saying they would buy more discounts if they were more confident with their maths, Get On, the campaign to encourage adults to improve their basic numeracy and literacy skills, is joining forces with Sainsbury’s to help shoppers grab the best bargains on the shelves this Christmas. |
| European Social Fund Helps Learners to Find Employment |
| Wednesday, 23 December 2009 09:25 | The European Social Fund (ESF) helps people find work, improves employability skills and provides encouragement to go into further learning and training, a new survey by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) has found. The findings include that there was a 34 percentage point net increase in the number of ESF learners in employment compared against the start of the course. Most of those now in new jobs (i.e. who were unemployed prior to the course or who had changed jobs) have secured permanent positions (77%), and half are working 30 hours a week or more. Click here for the full article. Click here to find out more about TCHC's ESF projects. |
| Record numbers of people successfully completing apprenticeships |
| Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:58 | A record 143,400 people completed their apprenticeship in the 2008/09 academic year, according to data on vocational qualifications released today by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. This increase of 27.4 per cent compared to 2007/08 smashes all previous records, and means the Government has met its target to increase the number of apprenticeship completions two years early. Statistics also showed that 239,900 people started an apprenticeship in the same academic year, representing the highest number of successful starts and completions ever in an academic year. The overall success rate for apprenticeships was 70.9 per cent in 2008/09, significantly higher than the target success rate of 65 per cent, and the 37 per cent pass rate in 2004/05. Click here for the full article. |
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