Learning Providers Working Together
This website was developed by the Tyne & Wear Association of Learning Providers to provide information about training opportunities for young people, adults and employers and organisations like the Learning and Skills Council and Connexions who support them.
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THREE NEW NATIONAL SKILLS ACADEMIES
On 6 May David Lammy announced the expansion of the National Skills Academy network with the approval of three new National Skills Academies: Sport and Active Leisure, Creative and Cultural and Hospitality. The new Skills Academies will provide for more than 20,000 learners in their first year alone, with the aim of reaching over 400,000 learners over five years, representing a significant boost to the UK’s talent pool Skills Academies have been created to solve specific and potentially acute skills shortages in their respective sectors, enabling employers, government and other stakeholders to design more effective solutions to training needs. There are now nine approved National Skills Academies, representing real progress towards the Government’s target of having a Skills Academy in each major sector by the end of 2011 Minister for Skills, David Lammy said: "The National Skills Academy network will make a substantial contribution to the success of the UK economy. By making a long term investment in high quality training, tailored to specific sector needs, the employers involved in these partnerships will reap dividends in terms of enhanced productivity, creativity and National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure among others, Sport England, Fitness First and the England and Wales Cricket Board will provide one single, coherent approach to all skills training across the sector. It will be driven by twin ambitions: to stage a successful London Olympic Games in 2012 and to see 50 per cent of the nation active and healthy by 2020." |
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New name for the new standard
Training Quality Standard (TQS) has been agreed by Government as the name for the new standard for employer responsiveness. |
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New Reforms to improve the delivery of adult and youn peoples skills
A new white paper issued by the Government on 17 March 2003 |
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New initiative aims to promote education providers under one brand.
The UK vocational education sector is aiming to raise its profile on the international stage with the launch of TVET UK. |
