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  • City Hall skills bootcamps to receive £27m funding boost

    Politics

    City Hall is set to receive a funding boost of £27m for a skills bootcamp programme for Londoners, Sir Sadiq Khan has announced. The mayor of London has welcomed the funding from the Department for Education (DfE) which represents a 25 per cent annual uplift for the programme of flexible courses, across some 7,700 trainees, [...]

    City Hall is set to receive a funding boost of £27m for a skills bootcamp programme for Londoners, Sir Sadiq Khan has announced. Photo: PA
  • Government must ‘make good’ pledge on skills bootcamps, executives urge

    UK Politics

    A group of executives have urged the Prime Minister to “make good” his “promise to upskill three million adults” by extending skills bootcamps funding.

    A group of executives have urged the Prime Minister to “make good” his “promise to upskill three million adults” by extending skills bootcamps funding.
  • Skills gap remains ‘stubbornly high’ with over half of London firms suffering from shortages

    Economics

    Engineering was the most commonly cited occupation where firms are struggling to find the right workers followed by sales and marketing.

    "The skills gap remains stubbornly high," Martha Lane Fox, Chancellor at The Open University and President of the BCC said.
  • Forget the skills – here’s what’s really important when it comes to talent

    June 5, 2024

    When is the right time to bring someone else onto the team, and how do you choose who's going to join you?

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