News
20 Oct 08
Borough Council Administrator Highly Commended at National Learning Awards
Debra Paget, an administrator in Berwick upon Tweed Borough Council, is celebrating today after being Highly Commended at the national Learndirect Achievement Awards.
21 Aug 08
Have you signed up to the Skills Pledge?
The Skills Pledge is a voluntary, public commitment by the leadership of a company or organisation to support all its employees to develop their basic skills, including literacy and numeracy, and work towards relevant, valuable qualifications to at least Level 2 (equivalent to 5 good GCSEs). The purpose is to ensure that all staff are skilled, competent and able to make a full contribution to the success of the company/organisation.
15 Aug 08
Delivering the Higher Level Skills Agenda
Evaluation and Assessment of Priorities (June 2008)
14 Aug 08
Time to Train Consultation
The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) are consulting on proposals to give employees in England a legal right to ask their employer for time to undertake the training they need to be more effective and productive at work. The consultation will run until 10 September and DIUS is keen to hear from everyone with an interest in how the new right to request time to train is taken forward.
04 Jul 08
Berwick-upon-Tweed Learner Scoops North East Regional Award
Debra Paget from Berwick-upon-Tweed is celebrating after winning an award at the Learndirect North East Regional Achievement Awards ceremony at The Baltic in Newcastle.
11 Oct 07
Schools given key role in shaping North East England's future
Schools are being given the chance to shape the future of the region, thanks to a unique initiative funded by One NorthEast.
24 Sep 07
NEPA change agents rewarded
Talented employees from some the region’s top manufacturing companies are celebrating new qualifications in manufacturing excellence.
06 Jul 07
Skills opportunities showcased to North East firms
Experts will showcase the skills assistance available to help businesses meet the challenges of the global 21st Century economy, at a conference later this month.
04 Dec 06
Stepladder into work
A North East conference will look at providing a “ladder” of support to help get people back into work.
24 Aug 06
Results day is time for businesses to act says Aspire
As GCSE results are opened all over the North East, the Aspire campaign is being joined at a local school by its funders and supporters to spread the message that the business community must get involved to raise the aspirations of young people.
09 May 06
Newcastle shoppers surveyed on market towns
Shoppers on the streets of Leeds and Newcastle are being asked about what attracts them to visit market towns in the United Kingdom.
08 May 06
Six of the best for NEPA
Six engineers with nearly 100 years of manufacturing excellence between them are the latest recruits to join an acclaimed programme helping North East industry save millions of pounds.
23 Feb 06
Henry Williams on track for success
An historic North East manufacturer with links to the region's proud rail past has embraced the latest business productivity techniques to win new orders worth over £300,000.
30 Jan 06
Spirit of Enterprise
A compeition is launched today that will see North East England competing for the title of the most enterprising place in Britain.
25 Jan 06
Youngsters key to the region's bid to be a world-class location for science
Schoolchildren are being targeted as the drive to develop the North East as a world-beating centre for science steps up.
23 Jan 06
Pioneering project set to transform service delivery in the region
An innovative new way of thinking could significantly improve the delivery and design of services in the North East.
22 Dec 05
Call centres the focus of new strategy to boost businesses in the region
Companies are being called upon to work together to ensure economic prosperity across the contact centre industry in the North East and support the predicted growth.
21 Dec 05
Fresh hope at NEPA for former LG Phillips trio
09 Dec 05
A NEW college built to turn heads and fill minds is to be delivered as part of the realisation of the Middlehaven masterplan.
07 Nov 05
Brewery Site Sold to Science City
Newcastle's ambition to become a leading Science City took a major step forward today with the
01 Nov 05
First Tenant Moves Into European Business Centre
A German IT company is the first tenant to set up home in North Tyneside's European Business Centre.
14 Oct 05
Top team ready to help more North East manufacturers
Industry experts will next week tell North East manufacturers how they can fight back against low-cost overseas competitors and carve out a brighter future.
From tiny acorns, mighty oaks - 200th Young Co-operative created
From humble beginnings in a Hartlepool back bedroom, Young Co-operatives is fast becoming a national success story.
06 Oct 05
Project North East
Project North East has recently completed a region-wide survey into the training aims and ambitions of people working in the voluntary and community sector of the North East, as part of their Voluntaryskills.com project.
19 Sep 05
Region's Go-Ahead Companies honoured in E-Commerce Awards
Companies from right across the North East were honoured at the prestigious E-Commerce Awards regional final held on Friday (16th September 2005) evening.
15 Sep 05
Honours for the Region's first "Change Agents"
A group of employees from North East manufacturers have received specialist training that will save their companies thousands in productivity costs.
12 Sep 05
North East England hosts design success
Aspiring teenage designers from all over the UK were in North East England yesterday to compete in the prestigious national final of the Audi Young Designer of the Year 2005, taking place at BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art.
05 Sep 05
Teenagers design success in North East England
Aspiring teenage designers from all over the UK will be arriving in Gateshead this week to compete in the prestigious national final of the Audi Young Designer of the Year 2005, taking place at BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art, on Friday September 9th.
22 Jul 05
A digital future for the Tees Valley
Nearly 300 new jobs and 130 new companies will be created by 2010 as the result of an Institute of Digital Innovation (IDI) to be built by the University of Teesside with support from One NorthEast.
06 Jul 05
New centre to drive region's automotive industry
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15 Jun 05
North East is top achiever in Skills for Life
The North East is outperforming every region, other than London, in terms of reaching and exceeding its adult literacy and numeracy targets.
22 Mar 05
White paper puts employers needs central to improving skills in the North East
Skills North East, the regional skills partnership today welcomed the Government`s White Paper aimed at raising skills levels for the economic benefit of the region.
02 Mar 05
Action to increase North East skills
Today the North East publishes an Action Plan to help address employers recruitment needs and tackle the skills gap in the region.
11 Nov 04
Education Minister Launches North East Regional Skills Partnership
Education Minister, Ivan Lewis MP is today (Thursday 11 November) in the region to launch Skills North East.
06 Jul 04
Progress on North East Skills
One hundred prominent members of the North East skills community will gather tomorrow, on the first anniversary of the National Skills Strategy (Wednesday 7th July) to hear how skills in the North East region have progressed.