Halifax Evening Courier
Calderdale College student, Emma Ramsdin, spent the day shadowing Craig Whittaker as part of National Apprenticeship Week 2012. Businesses across Calderdale have been celebrating new starters as part of National Apprenticeship Week 2012.

Dunstable Today
As a part of its agreement on the Luton Building Schools for the Future project, Wates has taken on some 59 apprentices since October 2009. Zak, who had spoken to family and friends about the value of apprenticeships, put his name on a website and was ...

FE Week
Simon Waugh, chief executive of the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS), says apprenticeships shouldn't be seen as a vehicle for putting young people back into work. Mr Waugh told the Guardian: “Apprenticeships are not about unemployment.

It seems that the 'NEET' phenomenon is becoming increasingly recognised as an important indicator of exclusion among young people. However, the term ...

Therefore, the concept of 'NEETs' has come to be commonly used to describe ... The acronym NEET stands for young people 'not in employment, education or ...

HRmagazine.co.uk
BAE Systems has launched plans to recruit 265 engineering and business apprentices across its UK business in 2012 including 136 to work at its submarine building business in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria - the highest intake at the yard for five years.

FE Week
A new report, chaired by David Miliband MP and titled 'Youth unemployment: The crisis we cannot afford', says the government could be doing more to help young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET). The commission says the Youth ...

AboutMyArea
The event on the 3rd February from 7.30am until 10am willg ive businesses the chance to find out how hiring apprentices can benefit their business. Apprenticeships are work-based leaning programmes that combine on and off-the-job training, ...

Left Foot Forward
I completely support the Mayor of London's ambition to see more businesses taking on apprentices. They can help get young people into jobs and create a more skilled workforce. As the mayor has said, they are “key to the future prosperity of the ...

Social Enterprise Live
Based in Brixton, 30% of the young people Livity works with are disadvantaged, often NEETs [not in education, employment or training], from across London. ...

Signing up for plumbing apprenticeships or enrolling in a plumbing course will allow those who want to pursue a career in plumbing, and it often proves to be ...

SMEweb
Even in an environment in which we have a not inconsiderable level of unemployment, not to mention almost a million NEETS (Not in Education, Employment or ...

BBC News
David Cameron said unemployed young people should be helped into work experience and apprenticeships. And he said the government should make it easier for the private sector to expand and to employ new people. Mr Cameron claimed it was a "sleeves ...

By Neil Puffett Friday, 06 January 2012

Scepticism over companies' motives for working with youth groups must be overcome to successfully deliver improved services, a charity central to the government's youth policy has warned.

By Marcus Leach Even in the current tough economic climate, against a backdrop of rising unemployment, employers have much to gain from actively engaging with the Government's flagship Work Programme and recent youth employment initiatives. ...

The latest Neet ('Not in education, employment or training') statistics have come as a shock and show that now is definitely the time for action to be taken to ...

eGov monitor
Finally, there is something the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) and Labour can agree on – the appointment of a youth minister to tackle the rising problem of youth unemployment and Neets. The Scottish Firs Minister Alex Salmond has announced that ...

Evening Standard

... 17-year-olds will be on offer too for young people who are persistently "not in education, employment or training". The move comes the day after official figures revealed that 1163000 16 to 24-year-olds were Neets in the third-quarter of this year. ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Burberry, Unilever and TNT are among 250 employers that will begin offering degree-level apprenticeships for the first time, under a new scheme to make the on-the-job training scheme a real alternative to university, the Government will unveil today. ...

... including the offer of work experience in the private sector for all young people out of work for more than three months. George Osborne said £940 million would be spent on the Youth Contract programme which aims to supply 250000 placements with ...

Demand for social media marketing apprentices has rocketed after a unique programme was showcased to Birmingham business owners recently. Training specialists SSC Learning are now searching the city for talented teenagers to take up positions with the ...