Latest Sector News
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| DHL Supply Chain, a market leader in logistics, has teamed up with Dyslexia Action to provide its Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (DCPC) trainers with training on how to identify and cater for students with dyslexia. |
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ILM Creating Future Leaders reveals a major skills gap in senior management teams.
Employers are ambivalent towards the value of MBAs for business and they want the 'whole package' from future leaders. |
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| A Poultry Science postgraduate qualification offered by SAC is successfully meeting the needs of the UK poultry industry while also attracting students from as far afield as Thailand and Zambia. |
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| Skills Minister John Hayes set out his vision for apprenticeships and reaffirmed the Government's commitment to work-based learning and training. |
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| As science in school is split equally between physics, chemistry and biology, schools need equal proportions of teachers with the appropriate academic background, but at present only 19% of science teachers have a physics degree. |
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| The charity, the Education and Employers Taskforce and its partners are organising the first national Visit our Schools and Colleges campaign during the week of 18 - 22 October 2010. The campaign is being supported by all the leading representative bodies for schools, colleges, and employers. |
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| The Mosslands School: A Technology College, Wallasey has signed an ambitious partnership agreement with Mersey Maritime Group to thrust its pupils into the heart of the region's thriving Maritime Sector. |
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| Employers, unaware of their legal responsibilities towards people diagnosed with cancer, are failing to make simple changes in the workplace that would enable them to stay in work, or return after treatment, according to Macmillan Cancer Support. |
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| New research from a UK recruitment agency review site has revealed that 79% of Brits believe that employers work towards a "candidate brief" when hiring. A further 34% believe that potential employers could be put off by their age, depending on the role. |
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| A 17.5million investment to help low skilled workers improve their numeracy and literacy skills will be launched this week by Lesley Griffiths, Deputy Minister for Science, Innovation and Skills, when she opens skillscymru. |
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Bright hosts unique law and banking recruitment event. On Friday 24th September Bright, the UK's first intelligent careers network, is hosting a unique recruitment event for 200 first year undergraduates. |
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This will be the largest employee shares scheme of any privatisation for 25 years in terms of the number of workers who will benefit - second only to the privatisation of British Telecom in 1984. The percentage being allocated to employees is also potentially one of the largest - larger than BT, British Gas or British Airways. |
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