Skills for Employment

A date for your diary

The 2017 conference for secondary headteachers, college principals and business leaders will take place on 13th March 7.30am – 10 am at Chesford Grange Hotel near Kenilworth. The focus of the conference will be on illustrating sustainable best practice and measuring the impact of employability activity. Full details will be provided in the December edition of Heads Up.

Major Grant opportunity

Following the success of last year's grants, a further £250,000 is now available to fund innovative careers and employability activity in high priority sectors or geographic areas in order to address demonstrable skills issues.  While this list is not exhaustive, bids are particularly welcome for the following sectors:

• Business & professional services;
• Care/health;
• Construction;
• Digital/IT;
• Hospitality/tourism.

Bids must be from partnerships comprising at least one education and one business partner.

Please click on the following links for the guidance and bidding form. The deadline for bids is 5pm 16 November 2016.