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Team Seeking Vocational Training Partnership With Schools

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An experienced team has been appointed to ensure that work based learning plays a full role in developing 14-19 learning partnerships as the Welsh Assembly Government bids to transform education and training provision across Wales. The Assembly Government is supporting … Read more »

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Wales Must Invest In Life Long Learning To Compete Globally

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Wales will only survive in a competitive global economy if it has a workforce with the confidence and skills to go on learning throughout their lifetime, a major conference for work based learning providers was told. “The skills that we … Read more »

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Conference To Highlight Success Of Work Based Learning

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Massive improvements to the work based learning success rate in Wales over the past five years will be highlighted at a major conference at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport tomorrow (Thursday). Chairman Arwyn Watkins will tell the National Training … Read more »

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Delivering Skills To Survive and Thrive

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As the National Training Federation Wales prepares to hold its annual conference at the Celtic Manor Resort, Newport on October 22, chairman Arwyn Watkins speaks about the challenges facing work based learning in Wales. I have the honour of chairing … Read more »

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Conference Challenge Facing Training Providers

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Delivering skills that work for Wales in a challenging economic climate will dominate the agenda when work based learning providers converge on the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport for a major conference on October 22. This year’s annual conference organised … Read more »

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Funding Cut Will Force Trainers To Turn Away Apprentices

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Training providers will be forced to turn away more people seeking to do apprenticeships in Wales next year because the Welsh Assembly Government is cutting support for work based learning programmes. That was the stark message delivered by Arwyn Watkins, … Read more »

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Training Providers Urged To Access European Funding

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Work based training providers across Wales have been urged to work together to make a bid for money from the European Convergence fund to address specific business training and development needs. The call came from Professor Dylan Jones-Evans, director of … Read more »

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Work Together To Deliver For Wales Says Chairman

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The new chairman of the National Training Federation Wales has called on all education and training providers to work together to deliver the most ambitious plans in the nation’s history to transform learning. “It makes both utter commonsense and an … Read more »

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Estyn Chief Calls for Better Collaboration in Wales

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HMI Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales, Dr Bill Maxwell, will call for better collaboration between education and training providers, employers and the voluntary sectors in Wales when he addresses a national conference in Cardiff tomorrow (Thursday). Dr … Read more »

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Training Federation Conference Held in A Climate Of Change

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Work based learning providers from across Wales will be heading to Cardiff for a major conference in November with Welsh Assembly Government plans to transform education and training provision fresh in their minds. The ‘Skills Working for Wales’ conference, organised … Read more »

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