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Skillsfest 2010 – the Video

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Oxfordshire Workplace Learning Model to be launched at SkillsFest 2010

In a climate of cuts in public service, investment in training and skills should be focused on high growth business sectors and should start as early as primary school. That’s the message coming from a new report called The Oxfordshire Workplace Learning Model, which is being launched at SkillsFest 2010 on June 29 (Tuesday).

The report is [...]

Apprenticeship Grants for Employers of apprentices aged 16 to 24

The European Social Fund will provide up to 1,025 Apprenticeship Grants to employers in the South East to employ  apprentices aged 16 – 24 years.  The value of the Grant will be £1,500 and is to encourage employers to take on unemployed 16 – 24 year olds as apprentices.

Which employers can benefit from the AGE 16 [...]

SkillsFest 2010

29 June 2010, The Kassam Stadium, Oxford
All-day work-based skills event hosted by the Oxfordshire Economic Partnership for Oxfordshire businesses – SkillsFest 2010

 

SkillsFest 2010 is proudly sponsored by Richardsons Chartered Accountants and Jack fm

On the day you can receive free training taster sessions – why not book your staff on to one or more of these one hour [...]

Sign up to the Skills Pledge

The OEP has signed up 8 companies to the Skills Pledge, demonstrating commitment by local businesses to proving learning and development opportunities to their workforce.

Employers who sign the Pledge agree to:

Actively encourage and support their employees to gain the skills and qualifications that will support their future;
Actively encourage and support their employees to acquire basic literacy and [...]

Cash injection for small businesses

Small businesses are set to benefit from £350 million of government funds to be used for training staff.

Train to Gain

The money will come from the Train to Gain programme, which supports and subsidises staff training. The government is planning to increase funding for this programme to £1 billion by 2010-11. The government will give top priority [...]