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North East to help shape adult retraining scheme
August 20, 2019Adults across the North East will be personally invited to try out a pioneering new digital service that will help more people to get on a path to a new, more rewarding career, Education Minister Kemi Badenoch has announced today (20 August). The Get Help to Retrain digital service is the first of a series […]
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North East Local Enterprise Partnership reaction to ONS regional labour market statistics
August 14, 2019North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) Senior Economist, Victoria Sutherland, comments on this week’s regional labour market statistics, released by the Office for National Statistics. “The statistics once again show a relatively stable picture for the North East including Tees Valley, although the region has recorded a slight drop in the number of people in […]
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In conversation with Professor Stuart Corbridge, Vice-Chancellor of Durham University
August 8, 2019Education employs 85,000 people in the North East and offers significant opportunities for more and better jobs in the region, directly and indirectly. Durham University is a world leader and has a ten-year strategy to invest £1 billion in people, and digital and physical infrastructures. Vice-Chancellor Professor Stuart Corbridge explores how universities can make a […]
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Newcastle pupils partner with Port of Blyth to put learning into action
August 1, 2019Students and teachers at Newcastle’s Excelsior Academy have been using applied learning to strengthen the links between schools and employers. Holly Knox, Assistant Principal of Hadrian School at Excelsior Academy, talks about the school’s recent visit to the Port of Blyth and how it has helped students to apply classroom learning to real life. We […]
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North East Brexit Group initiates project to plan Free Zone for the North East
July 29, 2019By Richard Baker, Head of Strategy and Policy, North East LEP In its role as the facilitator of the North East Brexit Group[1], and working with infrastructure and logistics organisations including the Ports of Tyne, Blyth and Sunderland, the North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has announced that it will commission work to develop a […]
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North Tyneside pupils learn what it takes to complete the Great North Run
July 18, 2019Paul O’Neil, an Apparel Coach from Nike’s Royal Quays store in North Tyneside, worked with Churchill Community College in Wallsend to help pupils work on a project in which the science curriculum has been taught through the lens of what it takes for a person to complete the Great North Run. The project is part […]
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Entrepreneurs with big ideas invited to join new business support programme
July 17, 2019Budding entrepreneurs in the region are being given the chance to turn their notepad doodle into the next Google with support from the North East Growth Hub’s new High Potential Startups programme.
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North East business community and economic partners have their say on Local Industrial Strategy
July 16, 2019Businesses in the North East this week contributed to the development of the region’s Local Industrial Strategy (LIS), which will set out how the region and government will work together to deliver increased productivity and living standards in the North East. During the North East Local Industrial Strategy Summit, co-ordinated by the North East Local […]
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North East Local Enterprise Partnership reaction to ONS regional labour market statistics July 2019
July 16, 2019North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) Senior Economist Victoria Sutherland gave her reaction to today’s regional labour market statistics. “Today’s figures show a broadly stable picture. The number of people in employment in the North East region, including Tees Valley, is 4,000 higher than in the last quarter – this is a small increase but […]
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In conversation with Michelle Rainbow, Skills Director, about putting in place a new way of teaching and learning
July 8, 2019June 2019 was a landmark month for the North East. We have officially become the first place outside the USA to put in place a new method of teaching and learning, which has been shown to transform outcomes for students. We’re very proud to have been designated as a Ford Next Generation Learning Community at […]
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