News & events

In this section, you can read latest news from Proskills or view our press archive. We also have an events calendar, which includes a comprehensive listing of skills-related conferences, exhibitions, meetings and awards ceremonies. Check back regularly as this area is being constantly updated.

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Contact Donna Fiebelmann with amendments and addition to events listed in this section. Tel 01235 432 034 or email.

In this section

Latest news

• Engineering and Technology Board launches new set of funded bursaries
• Chris Humphries on the goals of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills
• PrintIT! - The Full Story
• Employers missing out on skills of migrant workers
• Can you train the UK's most highly skilled young people?
• A competent workforce - where do you start?
• Apprenticeships..What's in it for employers? by Chris Boynton, Wirral Partnership Homes, Training Manager of last year's winner of Proskills Apprentice of the Year 2007
• Proskills announces its Apprenticeship Awards 2008
• 22 May 2008 - National Learning at Work Day
• Prime Minister wants one in five apprenticed within 10 years
• New Diploma will offer a wide range of skills to boost industry
• Train to Gain pilot to tackle gender inequalities
• Dating Agency to support businesses in South East competing for London 2012 contracts
• Lecturers into Industry supports EMP industry in Northern Ireland
• Vision for raising business skills is launched in Wales
• Terry looks back on Proskills' achievements in 2007
• Chief Executive of the Commission for Employment and Skills comments on government's progress on the Skills Agenda
• National Skills Academy Materials, Production & Supply - Update
• Pilot Scheme puts Yorkshire printers first on the map
• Terry's Opinion Piece in Print Week on Training in the Print Industry
• Time for Employers to have their say on Mayor's Skills Plan for London
• Training for a future in the world of work
• Train to Gain Funding to Double
• IChoose puts youngsters in charge of their own industries
• Gold Medal and 3rd Place Ranking in the World for young Cabinet Maker
• 'An easier way to bridge the nation's skills gaps' Terry Watts comments
• Proskills PrintIT! Initiative sees fivefold increase
• Terry comments on the Queen's speech
• Proskills Seeks Chairman for Proskills Building Products and Director of Proskills UK
• Scottish Modern Apprenticeship Awards 2007
• Mike Taylor appointed patron of PrintIT!
• PrintIT! goes from strength to strength with best year yet
• Proskills AGM and Apprenticeship Awards - the full picture!
• Proskills seeks Chairman for Proskills Glass and Director of Proskills UK
  
• Supervision of Mining Operations Consultation
• Proskills Paper Industry Group Seeks Chairperson
• Proskills welcomes two new industries
• Lantra and Proskills working in partnership to develop a new skills profiling tool
• Terry comments on the Government Response to Leitch
• Terry comments on the recent changes in Government and what they mean for Proskills
• Terry comments on the positioning of the Skills Academy
• Terry Watts comments on the future of the Manufacturing Industry
• Reform on the horizon - sector qualifications under the magnifying glass
• Quarrying Industry Targets Forces Personnel for Managers of the Future
• Third Time Lucky - Proskills gets its Academy
• News from the East Midlands - Automotive Glazing Industry
• "Give them the skills to do the job" - Digby addresses Welsh Employers
• Draft Printing Apprenticeship Framework released for wide industry consultation
• PrintIT - move to Proskills heralds new opportunities for industry-wide project
• PrintIT award winners announced
• Proskills apprenticeship awards entry deadline extended to 31 May 2007
• Glaziers' Company promotes the glass industry
• Report reveals that it pays to be an apprentice
• Major new initiative aims to take the confusion out of health and safety training

• Train to Gain - a Funding opportunity in England only

• Proskills supports resettlement programme of armed forces & opens the door to the Extractives & Mineral Processing Sector throughout the UK
• Independent Glass chairs the Scottish Nations Skills Group and invites Scottish employers to change history
• Print Admin Standards and S/NVQ Pathways - Final Consultation
• Jones warns 'dumbed down' education has left skills deficit

• Skills Illiteracy rate is a national disgrace, says Sir Digby

• Skills Envoy warns of urgent need to address the UK skills challenge or face serious decline in global economic competitiveness

• Glory for top apprentices

• Polestar and Proskills give insight into the benefits of training.

• Print Administration - Draft Standards

• Open letter from Sector Skills Councils in support of the Leitch Review of Skills

• Diploma Champions to drive forward Reform of the 14 - 19 Agenda

• CBI supports Sector Skills Councils

• Leitch Report goes Live - Lord Leitch calls for a major strengthening of the powers of the Sector Skills Councils

• Terry looks back on our first year

• End of Year Review - Proskills sails through with flying colours

• Opportunity for Businesses in Northern Ireland

• BPIF Print Educational Scholarships Open for the 4th Year

• New Standards Available for Consultation
• Burgess Consultation on Higher Education Classification
• Proskills leads consultation for Ceramics, Furniture and Paper.
•  Education Secretary Announces New Measures to Improve Life Chances for All