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Thursday 16 May 2024
16/05/2024

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Cash boost is just the job

A project to support adults into work across the region has been awarded £1.3m — one of the first schemes to get financial backing from the new North East Combined Authority. The Open Doors: Beyond Barriers project, led by Newcastle College, aims to offer individuals with tailored support plans, personal development activities and the next …

Employers challenged to attract talent

North East employers should be more creative in their approaches to recruitment and retention as they seek to fill the region’s growing skills and people gaps. That’s the key message to come out of a regional summit bringing together industry leaders with a shared mission to identify sector-wide trends and challenges. Education providers, SMEs and …

Batteries drained but data available

Questions surrounding the site of the failed Britishvolt factory on the outskirts of Blyth could soon be answered after talks to bring a giant data centre to the North East began.   Discarded plans for a new car battery plant on the outskirts of Blyth could open the door to Europe’s biggest data centre and …

UK Docks rubber stamps MoD deal

A new £250m contract rubber-stamping a partnership between North East-based UK Docks and the Ministry Of Defence (MoD) will create or safeguard more than 100 jobs. The contract will see the company — headquartered in South Shields and operating dry docks on the Tees and the Tyne — provide in-service support to Royal Navy River …

Battling a two-speed North East

Is there one North East? Or are there many? There’s a tendency to talk about the North East as if every one of the 2.7 million of us experience it exactly the same. The North East needs X, we’ll confidently say, it wants Y. Reality is, of course, much different and quality of life and …

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