Category Archives: NTFW Conference

Potential missed opportunity for Wales

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On the run up to the National Training Federation for Wales’ annual conference at the Celtic Manor Resort on October 18, chief executive Arwyn Watkins speaks about a contentious issue dominating the thoughts of work-based learning providers. Potential missed opportunity … Read more »

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Training Provider Focus On Shaping Wales’ Future Workforce

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Driving up demand for apprenticeships, getting more employers to invest in training and setting out a clear vision on how training providers will deliver the skills required by the Welsh economy were the key themes of a major conference held … Read more »

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Training Providers Challenged To Shape Wales’ Future Workforce

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The National Training Federation for Wales, a network of 116 quality assured workplace learning providers, is being challenged to set out a clear vision on how it aims to deliver the skills required by the Welsh economy now and in … Read more »

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Commissioner to call on Welsh Employers to invest in skills

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Wales Commissioner to the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, Scott Waddington, is a man with an important mission: to get more employers to invest in the skills of their people to drive up enterprise, jobs and growth. Mr Waddington, … Read more »

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Conference to Highlight Importance of Skills to the Welsh Economy

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The importance of an effective skills system to underpin economic growth is the focus of this year’s National Training Federation for Wales Annual Conference, which is spread over two days for the first time. The conference, to be held at … Read more »

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Employers Helping to Shape Future Skills Priorities in Wales

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Employers across Wales are helping to shape the Welsh Government’s future investment priorities to ensure that young people get the most relevant qualifications to prepare them for work, a conference was told. Deputy Minister for Skills Jeff Cuthbert revealed that … Read more »

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Standing Up For Skills

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Retiring chairman Arwyn Watkins reflects on the past and looks to the future as he prepares for the National Training Federation Wales’ annual conference in Cardiff on November 17. Having thought long and hard about the title of my final … Read more »

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Chairman challenges learning providers to become world class

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The retiring chairman of the National Training Federation Wales is to challenge members of the nation’s work-based learning network to upskill their own staff to deliver world class learning programmes. Arwyn Watkins will take the chair for the last time … Read more »

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Minister says Work Based Learning vital to Assembly plans

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Wales’ Minister for children, education and lifelong learning Leighton Andrews has pledged to protect skills and schools in budget cuts planned by the Welsh Assembly Government. The Minister, speaking at the National Training Federation Wales’ annual conference at The Vale … Read more »

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Vocational Qualifications Not Second Best Says FSB Chair

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A Welsh business leader is calling for an end to the perception that vocational qualifications are second best to academic ones. And Janet Jones, Federation of Small Businesses Wales chair, wants the Welsh Assembly Government to place more emphasis on … Read more »

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