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Prince's Trust Trainee pockets £4,000 for charity after two weeks work placement at Pimlico Plumbers
Date: 14/07/2010
Prince’s Trust Team programme trainee Aaran Davids spent two weeks on work experience with Pimlico Plumbers’ team of experienced technicians – and on his last day took home a cheque for £4,000 for the youth charity.
The 19 year old from Walthamstow was on board at Pimlico - London’s largest independent plumbing and service company - learning the ropes as a carpenter, and, after grafting hard on the tools, collected a £4,000 donation for The Trust.
The money was raised by the Pimlico Plumbers Band, from sales of a charity CD released after they won a BBC One talent show – Tonight’s the Night.
For more information click this link
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Adam Named As Winner Of Coast & Country's Innovative future leaders scheme
Date: 12/07/2010
Coast & Country has given teenager Adam Pearce the chance of a lifetime – his first step on the career ladder.
The 15-year-old pupil at Laurence Jackson School, Guisborough, has been declared the winner of Coast & Country’s Future Leaders scheme and has been awarded an apprenticeship with the housing and regeneration company, starting in 2011, as his prize.
Under the innovative project, students from four schools, in the Redcar & Cleveland area, were set a series of challenges.
They became involved in a series of community projects, which they devised and for which they were given a budget. These included community centre makeovers and the creation of patios and other amenities in residential areas.
An outward bound course was also held where team leadership and organisational skills were assessed.
For more information about Coast & Country, visit their website
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STUDENTS SHOWCASE THEIR BUSINESS ACUMEN
Date: 26/02/2010
Coast & Country’s first Future Leaders community project has involved the makeover of a community centre.
Students from Nunthorpe School helped give the community centre next door a bright new look by painting its interior.
Under the Future Leaders Scheme, students from four schools in the Redcar & Cleveland area are being set a series of challenges including planning and delivering community projects.
One student will eventually be chosen as a Future Leader and will be awarded an apprenticeship with Coast & Country, one of the largest regeneration and housing companies in the North East, starting in 2011.
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TTE leads the way with TV advertising campaign
Date: 29/01/2010
The TTE Technical Training Group has become the only organisation of its kind in the area to commission a television advert.
Highlighting TTE's apprentices’ competencies, skills and abilities to employers in the North East is the next stage in its Apprentices for the Upturn Campaign.
The campaign is to encourage companies to sign up apprentices, many of whom who have lost support due to the downturn in the chemical, steel-making and other industries in the region.
It hammers home the message that firms need to have a properly trained workforce of the future in place to capitalise on opportunities that will arise when the recession comes to an end.
It also stresses that the skills learnt as part of TTE’s Apprenticeship programmes are transferrable across a wide range of businesses.
Billingham Trampoline Club provided help in the making of the TV advert.
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COAST & COUNTRY OFFERS THE CHANCE OF A LIFE TIME
Date: 04/01/2010
Coast & Country Housing is offering one local youngster the chance of a lifetime – their first step on the career ladder.
It has launched a year-long Future Leaders scheme involving teenagers aged 14 to 15.
Under the innovative project, students from four schools in the Redcar & Cleveland area will be set a series of challenges.
One student will eventually be named a Future Leader and will be awarded an apprenticeship with Coast & Country starting in 2011.
The first stage of the selection process was held at Laurence Jackson School in Guisborough, with students from there, Redcar Community College, Nunthorpe, and Sacred Heart taking part in a variety of testing activities.
They will now all become involved in a series of community projects, which they will devise and for which they will be given a budget.
These initiatives will be assessed and afterward the group will be whittled down to 60 young people, who will have the opportunity to attend a week’s outward course in the Lake District.
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Apprentices For the Upturn
Date: 26/11/2009
The TTE Technical Training Group has launched a major recruitment drive called Apprentices For the Upturn. The aim is to encourage companies to sign up apprentices, many of whom who have lost support due to the demise of the chemical and other industries in the region.
The campaign will hammer home the message that firms need to have a properly trained workforce of the future in place to capitalise on opportunities that will arise when the recession comes to an end.
It will also stress that the skills learnt as part of TTE’s Apprenticeship programmes are transferrable across a wide range of businesses.
TV presenter and former professional racing car driver, Tiff Needell helped put the campaign in pole position as an Apprentices for the Upturn Ambassador.
For more information ring the campaign hotline – 01642 770301
Or log onto www.apprentices-now.co.uk
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TTE Technical Training Group Hold an International Day
Date: 02/07/2009
TTE Technical Training Group has held a special day with an international flavour.
It involved a lunch at the restaurant at TTE’s South Bank training centre, where the chef cooked up a range of delicious food from different parts of the world.
The guests included TTE Apprentices, its overseas students as well as representatives from ethnic community support centres and colleges in the Teesside area.
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North East school pupils look to the oil & gas sector to energise their future
Date: 24/03/2009
Around 2,000 school pupils from across the North East discovered the exciting career opportunities open to them in the oil & gas industry at Energise Your Future in Newcastle.
The two-day careers and lifestyle event at the Metro Radio Arena showcased the region’s oil, gas and energy sectors as exciting and vibrant industries that offer real career opportunities both now and in the future.
Organised by OPITO – The Oil & Gas Academy, the industry’s focal point for skills, learning and workforce development, in partnership with NOF Energy, Subsea North East (NE), Young Enterprise North East, TDR Training, Newcastle University and others, Energise Your Future was the first fully-interactive careers fair for the energy sector to take place in the region.
The pupils, along with hundreds of members of the public, took part in a number of interactive activities including piloting remotely operated underwater vehicles, testing offshore survival suits and taking part in engineering construction challenges.
For more information on OPITO - The Oil & Gas Academy please click on this link
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Pupils' Journey of Discovery
Date: 17/02/2009
Tees Engineering Alliance, known in the region as TVEP, has taken hundreds of secondary school children from across the area on a journey of discovery about what engineers do and how they do it.
In conjunction with the University of Teesside, TVEP staged a series of lectures, featuring a Rough Guide to Engineering presentation by Innovative science communications company, Science Made Simple.
The interactive shows included demonstrations showing how engineers design cars that go hundreds of miles an hour, how structures can be built that are capable of surviving an earthquakes, and that food can be cooked by using only mirrors.
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TTE SHOWS INDUSTRY: ‘GIRLS ALLOWED’ - WITH MUSIC
Date: 10/02/2009
TTE Technical Training Group, in partnership with the Tees Valley Learning Provider Network, has held a special event to encourage more girls to consider a career in engineering.
The information day was called ‘Girls Allowed’. However, it was nothing to do with the girl band of the same name, but about letting more female students know about the fantastic career opportunities available in this sector.
Central to the event was a hands-on practical exercise where the 15 and 16-year-old pupils from Acklam Grange School, Kings Academy and Bydales School made a mini electric motor under the expert eye of TTE instructors.
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TTE SHOWS INDUSTRY: ‘GIRLS ALLOWED’
Date: 06/02/2009
TTE Technical Training Group, in partnership with the Tees Valley Learning Provider Network, has held a special event to encourage more girls to consider a career in engineering.
The information day was called ‘Girls Allowed’. However, it was nothing to do with the girl band of the same name, but about letting more female students know about the fantastic career opportunities available in this sector.
Central to the event was a hands-on practical exercise where the 15 and 16-year-old pupils from Acklam Grange School, Kings Academy and Bydales School made a mini electric motor under the expert eye of TTE instructors.
The information day also included an interactive quiz based on engineering general knowledge, advice about how learners can progress from Apprenticeships into Higher Education and a tour of the workshops and facilities at TTE.
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Chef Phil Vickery works with Busy Bees to tackle obesity
Date: 03/12/2008
Chef Phil Vickery has worked with the UK's leading nursery chain Busy Bees to help families develop healthy eating habits in very young children. As part of the campaign, Phil has worked with Busy Bees to devise a new menu which will be rolled out to the chain's 131 nurseries nationwide in the new year.
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Celebrity Chef Phil Vickery offers sneak preview to healthy nursery school menu
Date: 27/10/2008
As part of a special healthy eating campaign being launched by Busy Bees, Michelin-starred chef Phil Vickery has worked with the chain to create an exciting and healthy new menu, which is to be rolled out to the 130 nurseries nationwide.
A group of Busy Bees' chefs joined Phil at Pru Leith’s esteemed cooking academy in London, where they received a sneak preview of the new recipes and was given a chance to test them out, with Phil on hand to offer his expert advice and encouragement.
The collection of healthy snacks, lunches and desserts were created by Phil with the help of the Busy Bees catering team and an expert in child nutrition, and are packed with all the vitamins and minerals a growing child needs.
For more information on Busy Bees Nurseries please click on this link
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TV Chef James Martin throws down learning challenge
Date: 27/07/2008
TV celebrity chef James Martin has thrown down a culinary challenge to encourage the thousands of people in the region who have difficulties using numbers and basic maths to brush up on these skills and enrol on a free course.
James, star of the BBC’s Saturday Kitchen, was put through his paces creating a delicious strawberry gateaux while up against the clock.
The culinary challenge was to highlight the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) North East’s Get On campaign, a national strategy for improving adult numeracy and literacy.
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Movie Legend Visits Tees Valley College
Date: 17/07/2008
Legendary film producer Lord Puttnam of Queensgate visits Cleveland College of Art & Design to deliver a speech on The Creative Industries and Education and find out more about the college's achievements.
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Polam Hall pupil’s outstanding musical achievement
Date: 03/07/2008
A Polam Hall School pupil has proved she is years ahead of her peers when it comes to her musical ability.
Lucy Walker, aged nine, has passed Grade 7 with distinction in her London College of Music – Jazz syllabus – examinations.
The usual progression is for musicians to take one grade a year and therefore take seven years to get to Lucy’s level. Lucy has managed this four years ahead of the normal schedule.
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LSC in Yorkshire and the Humber celebrates Skills Pledge anniversary
Date: 30/06/2008
The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) in Yorkshire and the Humber celebrated the first anniversary of the Skills Pledge with a tour of some of the region’s employers.
The tour was designed to showcase some of Yorkshire and the Humber’s ‘skills-savy’ employers who have realised that an investment in the skills of its workforce can increase the success and profitability of their organisations.
Joined by Yorkshire-born entrepreneur James Averdieck, founder and managing director of the well-known luxury chocolate pudding makers Gü, the LSC visited a cross-section of employers who have all made the Skills Pledge.
For more information on the Skills Pledge click here
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Dr Who swaps Tardis for down to earth North East transport
Date: 09/05/2008
Doctor Who, alias actor Peter Davison, swapped the Tardis for more down to earth forms of transport as he toured organisations supported by Learning and Skills Council (LSC) North East training initiatives.
Peter, who starred as the fifth “Doctor” in the cult series, revived to much acclaim three years ago, has travelled across the region, rather than time and space.
He visited employers who are benefiting through the jointly funded LSC North East and ONE NorthEast supported Train to Gain service.
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The Academy achieves outstanding Ofsted grade
Date: 14/04/2008
The Academy Hair and Beauty Training Centre in Malton has been named as an ‘Outstanding’ training provider by the education inspector, Ofsted.
According to the latest report by Ofsted, The Academy has achieved an overall Grade 1 standard, which is the highest rating awarded by the inspectorate.
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Gateshead College
Date: 12/02/2008
The first students and staff are about to move into the new Gateshead College - designed by the Red Box Design Group - and situated between the iconic Sage and Baltic.
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Football Clubs Launch The Celebration of Learning and Skills Awards 2008
Date: 08/02/2008
The North East’s football clubs have kicked off the search to find premier league learners and employers in the North East after launching the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) North East’s Celebration of Learning and Skills (CoLaS) Awards.
The CoLaS Awards 2008, which will be held at the Sage Gateshead on 20th June 2008, have been designed to highlight the often unrecognised achievements of individuals and employers who work ‘behind-the-scenes’ for their own personal development or to improve the skills of others.
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I On Learning
Date: 29/01/2008
This is the first programme on the internet examining training and skills in the North East.
If you would like to make a comment about the programme send us an email by clicking on the link
comment@broadbandtvchannel.co.uk
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TVEP Christmas Lecture 2007
Date: 12/12/2007
The Tees Valley Engineering Partnership has given young people from across the region the chance to learn more about careers in engineering in a fun and entertaining way.
The Partnership, which has a membership of more than 50 engineering-related companies, recently hosted, ‘Engineering and Science Superstars,’ an interactive presentation aimed at promoting the sector to a Key Stage 3 audience.
For more information please click here
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Active8
Date: 26/11/2007
Active8 is a unique service, offered by Keys Childcare - one of the UK's biggest organisations in its sector. Young people are given the chance to take part in a number of outdoor activities, which helps build their confidence and self-awareness.
for more information about Active8 please click here
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Hull businessmen urged to get 'cracking on' workforce training
Date: 22/11/2007
The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) in Yorkshire and the Humber has teamed up with one the founders of the UK internet revolution to inspire business owners across the Humber to ‘get cracking’ on their training plans.
Ajaz Ahmed, who launched the Freeserve internet service, delivered an informative presentation at a special breakfast briefing at the Country Inn Park Hotel in Hull.
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Celebration Of Learning And Skills Awards 2007
Date: 26/10/2007
The Sage Gateshead was the venue for a spectacular awards night, designed to honour and reward some of the North East’s most outstanding individuals and organisations, for their innovative approach to skills development and learning excellence.
More than a thousand people attended the Learning and Skills Council North East’s Celebration of Learning and Skills awards 2007, making it the biggest event of its kind to take place in the North East region.
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TV Dragon helps LSC push training in York and North Yorkshire
Date: 23/10/2007
The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) in Yorkshire and the Humber teamed up with Dragons’ Den panellist and serial entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne to inspire business owners across York and North Yorkshire to ‘get cracking’ on their training plans.
Bannatyne delivered one of his inspirational presentations at a special breakfast briefing at the Parsonage Country House Hotel in York
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TTE HELPS LARGEST COHORT OF APPRENTICES SECURES INDUSTRY SPONSORSHIP
Date: 17/10/2007
The TTE Technical Training Group has praised local businesses for its contribution to securing industry sponsorship for a record number of Advanced Apprentices.
A group of 89 students, who have completed their two-year ‘off the job’ training at TTE’s Centre of Vocational Excellence in South, Bank, Middlesbrough, have been sponsored by employers from across the Tees Valley to help them complete their Apprenticeship Framework.
In excess of 20 businesses have committed to invest in the future of the Tees Valley’s technical workforce by sponsoring Advanced Apprentices including, for the first time, AMEC.
for more information about TTE and its Apprenticeships click here
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TV 'Dragon' Bannatyne signs up to Skills Pledge
Date: 11/10/2007
Duncan Bannatyne, star of BBC TV’s Dragons’ Den and a major regional and national employer, is putting his weight behind a major new initiative to improve the skills of the workforce and make the nation more competitive and profitable.
Mr Bannatyne, Chairman of the Bannatyne Group, which includes health clubs, hotels and spas, has signed the ‘Skills Pledge’, a joint government and CBI initiative, supported by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) North East, aimed at encouraging employers to train their workforce. The businessman has committed to increasing the number of people in his organisation with a minimum NVQ Level 2 qualification.
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Busy Bees becomes UK's biggest nursery provider with Leapfrog acquisitions
Date: 13/08/2007
Busy Bees has become the UK’s biggest nursery provider following the £31.2 million purchase of 88 Leapfrog nurseries on a debt free basis.
The acquisition has enhanced Busy Bees position in the childcare market growing its portfolio to 134 nurseries across Britain, offering around 12,500 places. The deal secures the number one position for Busy Bees in the UK nursery operator and childcare sector.
Busy Bees’ acquisition of Leapfrog, part of Nord Anglia Education plc, takes the number of staff working for Midlands-based company to just under 4,500. Bringing the two companies together also provides many more parents with the opportunity to utilise Busy Bees Childcare Vouchers at a Busy Bees Nursery
for more information please click here
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Former England goalkeeper gives a helping hand with North East skills campaign
Date: 10/07/2007
The Skills Campaign, which has the theme ‘Our future – it’s in our hands’, was launched in the North East by a man whose hands were his fortune, former England goalkeeper, Peter Shilton.
He travelled around the region encouraging individuals and businesses to support the campaign by placing painted handprints on a giant poster, which spelt out the word ‘skills’.
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Liverpool builder completes £5 million school
Date: 28/06/2007
Liverpool builder Rok has completed a 5 million pound development which sees the merger of two local primary schools.
Springwood Heath Primary and Harold Magnay special needs school now have combined facilities which will allow able bodied and children with special needs to learn and play together in a fully integrated school environment.
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LSC North East reports year of significant achievement
Date: 18/06/2007
The drive to improve the skills of everyone living and working in the North East is making significant progress, according to the region’s Learning and Skills Council (LSC).
Progress is being made to develop the skills of both young people and adults, who may or may not be in work, to upskill the workforce and to invest in the region’s centres of learning.
The achievements are highlighted in the LSC North East’s first ever performance report, Delivering Learning and Skills in the North East, which relates to 2005-06 and is published this week.
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Hollywood comes to the North East (almost) as LSC launches CoLaS awards
Date: 30/03/2007
Residents could be forgiven for thinking that Hollywood had come to the North-East this week, as two of the world’s most famous actors, ‘Brad Pitt’ and ‘Angelina Jolie,’ visited the region to launch the Learning and Skills Council’s (LSC) North East Celebration of Learning and Skills Awards (CoLaS) 2007.
The CoLaS Awards, which were first held in the North-East in 2006, have been designed by the LSC North East to honour the achievements of some of the region’s most outstanding individuals, recognising their innovative and progressive approach to skills development and overall learning excellence.
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Fishy goings on at Busy Bees Nurseries
Date: 14/03/2007
Busy Bees Childcare Ltd, one of the largest childcare providers in the UK Bees has launched an initiative in partnership with nutrition expert and chef Ady Delaney to encourage children to eat a more balanced diet.
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Fomer Blue Peter presenter visits North East schools
Date: 09/03/2007
Television presenter Matt Baker has been in the North East to encourage teenagers to gain good qualifications.
Matt, who hails from the North East and who presented BBC TV’s Blue Peter for seven years, visited schools in Newcastle, County Durham and the Tees Valley to support the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) North East in encouraging young people to gain five GCSEs at good grades or an equivalent Apprenticeship, known as a level 2 qualification.
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CHILDREN LEARN ABOUT ENGINEERING
Date: 12/12/2006
The Tees Valley Engineering Partnership has given over 600 of the area’s young people a unique chance to learn more about the engineering industry in a fun and entertaining way.
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Question of Skills event in Yorkshire
Date: 17/11/2006
The challenge to make Yorkshire and the Humber more competitive with the rest of the world was debated this week at a special event chaired by Today programme presenter James Naughtie.
‘A Question of Skills,’ hosted by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), was attended by more than 60 business leaders from across Yorkshire and the Humber, including representatives from the region’s colleges, small businesses and other training providers.
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FEMALE ENGINEERING APPRENTICES
Date: 14/11/2006
The TTE Technical Training Group has hailed Redcar as home of the future of female engineering talent.
TTE has recruited the highest number of girls on to its apprenticeship programmes in its 15 year history, with the majority from Redcar!
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'Roy & Haley' launch Train to Gain
Date: 20/09/2006
Coronation Street favourites Roy and Hayley Cropper have been in the North east to promote a new service from the Learning and Skills Council’s (LSC)to help businesses compete on the world stage - and learn how their Weatherfield business, “Roy’s Rolls,” could benefit!
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Roy & Haley at the Baltic for the LSC
Date: 20/09/2006
During a regional visit, Coronation Street's 'Roy & Haley' took part in a high profile Train to Gain launch event at the Baltic in Gateshead, where representatives from the LSC, the North East Chamber of Commerce, Business Link North East, the CBI and the TUC, talked about how the service will produce better skilled, more motivated and productive teams to help North East organisations succeed in increasingly competitive markets
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