School leavers lag behind Europe in basic numeracy and literacy
UK school leavers perform poorly against their European peers and twice the proportion lack functional skills, which is imposing costs on business and dragging down productivity
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TJ celebrates 50 years in L&D
TJ is marking its 50th anniversary with a special day of learning and celebration in London on 10th July. In keeping with TJ’s ethos of supporting the professional development of all those involved in workplace learning and development the programme will…
YMCA: Training needed to combat youth unemployment
Central YMCA, which supports young people into work through its national YMCA Training operation, has today launched a roadmap of eight key recommendations designed to tackle youth unemployment, along with research highlighting the financial prize of getting it right
Government joins forces with industry to get more women into engineering
The £208,000 of joint government and employer funding will create new skills programmes for new and former women engineers
UKCES: Work experience ‘lottery’ fuelling youth unemployment figures
The report builds on results of the UKCES’s Employer Perspectives Survey, which interviewed over 18,000 employers across the UK. Two-thirds said work experience was critical when recruiting a young person.The Humber, which faces one of the highest unemployment rates for…
