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Year 5 pupils to explore Tees Valley careers through new college partnership
Middlesbrough College and Lingfield Education Trust have agreed three years of careers activity, employer contact and staff development for primary schools.
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Tees Valley chosen to pilot apprenticeship ‘second chance’ support for young people
A new brokerage scheme aims to connect near-miss applicants with other apprenticeship vacancies and support 1,500 additional starts.
Hartlepool schoolgirls get hands-on introduction to careers in construction
Year 9 pupils tried bridge building, budgeting and site-risk exercises at Hartlepool College in an event designed to broaden routes into the construction industry.
Hartlepool NHS training model reaches regional skills awards final
A pilot that combines project-based learning with clinical experience is expanding to around 90 first-year T Level students after North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust was named a regional skills awards finalist.
Seventeen Teesside and Skinningrove apprentices prepare to start British Steel careers
A new group of electrical, mechanical and structural engineering apprentices will begin training in September through TTE and Middlesbrough College Group before moving into British Steel’s northern sites.
Northern Skills becomes MC Apprenticeships & Training after 6,000-person consultation
Middlesbrough College has brought its apprenticeship and employer-training provision closer to the main college brand following consultation with more than 6,000 stakeholders.
£1.8m apprenticeship pot is already helping Tees Valley firms take on new talent
Eleven major employers have pledged around £1.8 million through a Tees Valley scheme that redirects unused apprenticeship levy funding to local businesses. So far, 89 apprentices have been supported and £600,000 remains available.
Stockton Council: 750 helped into employment since last year as Employment and Training Hub goes from “strength to strength”
More than 750 people have now secured jobs with help from the “thriving” Stockton-on-Tees Employment and Training Hub, figures have revealed. The hub has also had thousands more sign-up and visit events to help find their dream career since it opened in Wellington Square last year. And with a range of facilities…