Gateshead Get Up and Go Event - February 2010
Gateshead Skills Academy hosted a two day awareness raising event for opportunities in Apprenticeships and work-based learning organised by the Gateshead Collective in partnership with Connexions Gateshead, the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) and Gateshead MBC Raising Achievement Service. Over two days the event attracted Year 10 to Year 13 pupils, college students, parents and guardians who spoke with, and gathered information from a range of work-based learning providers.
Suzanne Evans, ITEC’s Business Development Consultant is pictured with Blaydon’s MP Dave Anderson and pupils from Lord Lawson School in Birtley, as she explains the range of Apprenticeships currently available to school leavers.
Completed evaluation forms indicate visitors found the event useful and 65% stated they were interested in finding out more about Apprenticeships.
Welcome
ITEC North East is delighted to have been awarded £40,000 funding for its ‘Roam with a View’ project following a successful submission to the Association of Learning Providers (ALP).
Our submission outlined plans to draw together ITEC’s learners, staff and employers into a cohesive learning community with the addition of netbooks and point of view cameras. With these additional resources, the time our assessors spend with learners and employers will be much more effectively used to record exactly what is relevant to progress each learner’s training and considerably reduce the amount of paperwork currently generated.
It is hoped to introduce the new cameras and netbooks early in 2010.