Government launches National Apprenticeship Week
The government today launched National Apprenticeship Week, celebrating the commitment of employers to recruit apprentices and urging people to look at the benefits to their skills and career of becoming an apprentice. Major UK employers are expecting to hire thousands of apprentices in 2010 and the government is encouraging all businesses to take up […]
Karren Brady: Being the new ‘Margaret’
Karren Brady chats to Jon Wilcox about her new role as Lord Sugar's right-hand women on The Apprentice, the recession, and the importance of business skills for today's young people. As fans of BBC One's The Apprentice, we were thrilled when TrainingZone.co.uk’s Jon Wilcox recently caught up with Karren Brady, the former managing director at […]
Government reveals shocking NEET figures
Record numbers of young people are not in education, employment or training (Neets), government figures reveal today. The latest report from the Department for Children, Schools and Families show that a shocking one in six adults aged 18 to 24 in England are Neets. What’s more the figures, for the second quarter of this year, […]
More than a feeling: Can EI be taught?
Can you train someone to be more self aware, or coach them to have better intuition? Professor Malcolm J Higgs tells Verity Gough that emotional intelligence is all a matter of motivation. Every so often emotional intelligence (EI) seems to become de rigueur, and now is one of those times. In the last year alone, […]
Banking on the skills
As the recession trundles on, Sylvia Perrins, chief executive of the National Skills Academy for Financial Services, emphasises the importance of skills and education in getting the nation back on its feet. Skills and education have long been recognised as the essential ingredient in a strong economy. Indeed back in December 2006, the Government issued […]
Train to Gain: What’s the real story?
Just as the scheme’s value is becoming widely accepted, could funding shortages and mismanagement sink its credibility? Guy Sheppard gets behind the headlines. The mantra that training is vital during a recession is often repeated by government ministers, and if Train to Gain is anything to go by, employers seem to be taking heed. In […]
