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Kent Rural Careers is an initiative to help young people explore and follow careers in the rural sector.
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Kent Rural Careers is an initiative to help young people explore and follow careers in the rural sector.
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Teenagers will be guaranteed face-to-face individual careers advice if Labour forms the next government. The party’s education manifesto also includes a pledge “to protect the entire education budget in real terms”, “A world-class education is a not a luxury, but a necessity,” said Labour leader Ed Miliband. Labour says its plan would focus on vocational as well as […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentKent Rural Careers, an initiative run by Rural Plc (Kent), attended the successful two day careers event ‘KentChoices4U’ on Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th March. Kent Rural Careers, Rural Plc (Kent), Kent County Agricultural Society, Chavereys and BTF Partnership shared a large area within the new Land Based zone. Day one centred around education and […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentA C Goatham & Son is now recruiting to fill around 500 full time seasonal posts for the 2015 harvest season, beginning June 2015. Gayle Goatham, HR Manager at A C Goatham & Son comments: “We have a number of roles available each year and would like to urge people to get in touch with […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentThe Low Pay Commission (LPC) have recommended a rise in the minimum wage for apprentices of 7p per hour – but the Government has opted instead for an increase of 20% (57p) which would bring the minimum wage for apprentices up to £3.30 ph. You may not know that when a young person, living at […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentAccording to a new study, more than one in 10 secondary school pupils would choose education as their preferred career, despite many having inaccurate salary expectations. According to the new study by the Edge Foundation, 12 per cent of 14 to 18-year-olds name teaching or lecturing as their ideal job, beating finance, real estate, and […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentApplying for jobs and not getting an interview can be incredibly frustrating, especially when not every employer will let you know if you have failed or not., instead waiting for a deadline to pass without word to realise that you didn’t make the cut. If this is happening to you it might be worth taking […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentA new free course is being launched by CXK with the aim of supporting 16 to 19 year olds who are currently not in employment, education or training. ‘Elevate’ is a fifteen week course which has been specifically designed, as a result of feedback from local employers, to give participants work-ready skills and experience. The fifteen […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentLabour would guarantee apprenticeships for every school leaver in England who “gets the grades” by 2020, Ed Miliband has said. The pledge comes as Mr Miliband set out his party’s business policies for the general election, he argued better training and higher wages were key to boosting productivity. Labour are talking about an extra 80,000 […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentApprenticeships are big news right now, with planned reforms to how they operate and the government putting their support behind getting people trained up and ready to work. It may seem that apprenticeships are a new thing, or at least something that has come to the fore in recent years, but actually, apprenticeships have been […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentToo many teenagers in England are dropping out of school or college or failing to pass their courses, because of poor advice, say councillors. A report for the LGA suggests the teenage dropout rate costs the country £814m a year. Researchers have said 92,000 students withdrew from schools, primarily from AS and A-levels; 24,200 did not […]
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