Proskills are once more including a category of ULR of the year in their annual awards for learning. If you want to nominate a union learning rep working in building products, coatings and paint, extractive and mineral processing, furniture, furnishings and interiors, glass and related industries, glazed ceramics, paper and board or printing, you can enter at..
The Asset Skills Employability Matrix is a recognised framework to approve all generic employability skills qualifications. The Matrix is now due for revision and there is an opportunity to share your views on the skills you consider essential for employability and so shape the content of future employability qualifications.
Stephenson College receives award from John Hayes, skills minister.
Quality must go hand in hand with quantity, the TUC said, as John Hayes the skills minister, called for a hughe increase in apprentices
Apprenticeships are union business: a conference today will showcase unionlearn’s role
Joe Kennedy was introduced to his local POA union learning centre by a friend who was already learning computer skills at the centre. Joe, who is 69 years of age, recollects that his very first visit to the learning centre clarified for him that a mouse was not just a furry rodent with a long tail…
TUC Briefing: 7 February 2011
The Education Bill, which was introduced in Parliament on 26 January, takes forward a number of new measures set out in the Schools White Paper – The Importance of Teaching – and also builds on the provisions in the Academies Act. The TUC and its affiliated unions have raised a number of major concerns about the direction of the coalition government’s policy reform on school education…
Speaking at the Southern & Eastern TUC conference on the first day of Apprenticeships Week, Tom Wilson, director of unionlearn, said
It is not just the Olympic and Paralympic athletes who have been set goals for the 2012 Games, there is a whole army of young people who are working towards qualifications and new skills as they make up the workforce building the stadia and Athletes’ Village on the east London site…
Unionlearn with the Northern TUC will be holding one of their largest events of the year on Monday 7th February. The Promoting Apprenticeships event has been timed to coincide with the start of National Apprenticeships Week and the forthcoming second Parliamentary reading of the ‘Small Change, Big Difference’ Bill which aims to further embed Aprenticeships in the private sector and offer more opportunities through public procurement processes.