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 …
A joint initiative to plug Tees Valley’s construction skills gap has won warm praise with three trainees on the cusp of taking their first steps into the industry. Esh Construction and Middlesbrough College joined forces to deliver the Constructing Careers programme. With a remit to ‘engage, enable and excite’ underrepresented groups, by teaching entry level …
These are tense times for everyone involved with Key Subject Tuition. Last week, founder and director Claire Wardle submitted an application that could transform the South Tyneside education provider’s ability to arm a generation of young people and adult learners with vital skills and improved prospects. Should Key Subject Tuition be successful in its bid …
The challenges of recruitment and retention in the engineering and manufacturing sector will be tackled head-on at an industry conference in Newcastle next month. Engineers and Manufacturers Assemble: Recruitment and Retention — organised by membership organisation Engineering and Manufacturing Network (EMN) — takes place on April 26. The event will focus on how engineering and …
While the perception is that the world has gone digital, that each of us has our faces buried in a device most of the time, the reality is different, particularly in the North East. International consultancy Deloitte has just published a report highlighting the digital poverty gap and this region is the worst in the …
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