Universities have a vital role to play in helping the North East economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic. The work being delivered by North East universities is supporting new and existing [...]

The North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has appointed a new Chair to its Skills Advisory Panel. Ellen Thinnesen will lead the Skills Advisory Panel as it supports the drive to improve [...]

New funding from government is on offer to help employers in the North East create job placements for young people who might otherwise be at risk of long-term unemployment. Applications are now [...]

Universities have a vital role to play in helping the North East economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic. The work being delivered by North East universities is supporting new and existing [...]

In conversation with Michelle Rainbow, Skills Director at the North East Local Enterprise Partnership I’m delighted to share a new and exciting opportunity to join the North East LEP team as an [...]

Universities from across the region have joined the North East Local Enterprise Partnership, North East and North of Tyne Combined Authorities, the CBI on behalf of business organisations, and [...]

Careers education and guidance, and how it is delivered in schools and colleges, has been transformed in recent years. The introduction of the Good Career Guidance Benchmarks and the closer [...]

I’ve just returned from my latest visit to the North East to see, in person, the impact the North East Ambition Career Benchmarks: Primary Pilot is having in our participating schools. I can’t [...]

03-07 February 2020 sees the arrival of National Apprenticeship Week, putting this important route to employment in the spotlight. Michelle Rainbow, Skills Director at the North East Local [...]

Durham University, in partnership with Durham Sixth Form Centre, will open a new flagship Mathematics School in 2022 to help raise attainment in mathematics and other STEM subject across the [...]