Learning & Skills Policy Update - February 2010
In this issue: Skills White Paper - Skills for Growth; Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act; Government social mobility paper; Downing Street Launch event for Apprenticeship project; National Apprenticeship Week; Group Training Associations/Apprenticeship Training Agencies; Right to Request Time to Train Project Launch Event; Inquiry in to young people not in education; Higher Education framework; Train to Gain and Skills Pledge; Advancement and Adult Careers Service and Skills Accounts; Low carbon skills strategy; Learning and skills institutional framework; Collective Learning Funds; Learning representative initiatives in the UK and New Zealand
Right to request training
The new right to request training will be in operation from April 6 2010. The TUC has long campaigned for workers to have statutory rights relating to training and enthusiastically support the introduction of this right. Guidance for workers on how the right will work is available from the government's direct gov website...
Help your business to survive and thrive by investing in training
New Train to Gain leaflet. Train to Gain offers skills advice at no cost to your business. It is part of the Government's Solutions for Business, a wide portfolio of highly targeted, publicly funded business support products and services, designed to help qualifying English businesses survive and thrive.
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