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uke learning find it encouraging that Alistair Darling has earmarked £2.5 billion in this year’s budget for small businesses to boost skills and innovation. The skills of our national workforce have a vital role to play in how well we recover from this recession, as well as how well we will thrive in the eventual recovery. It is reassuring that Darling is taking steps to address this by making key skills a fundamental part of the growth package for small business. |
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uke learning's directors, Rod Harris and Mick Durham, were delighted to be invited to meet with John Hayes MP, then Shadow Minister for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education in November 2009, to discuss Conservative party policy on training. With our unique perspective as a successful and innovative training provider in the workplace; we were able to give him a view of how independent training providers can make a valuable contribution to the prosperity of UK business by increasing skills in the workforce. With an exceptionally successful delivery model, we were able to shed light on the elements needed to make best use of Government funding. This involves taking learners from potential to achievement, creating the best person for the job – not ready-made at the point of recruitment, but trained to be ideal for the role.
uke learning were pleased to join with Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust on Tuesday 15 December to celebrate the achievements of staff who had undertaken skills for life training in Maidstone Hospital. |
uke learning, in collaboration with Indigo 21 have facilitated two Christmas parties for underprivileged children as a result of their joint efforts to swap their old mobile telephones for cash. 
Ploughing much needed investment into Kent, skills training provider, uke learning launched its new office in Sittingbourne on 23 January 2009, with a warm welcome from local MP Derek Wyatt. “Training has rarely been as important as it is now,” he said. “Many Kent residents who have lost their jobs in recent months may see this as an opportunity to change career; but, clearly, they will need training. uke learning’s ability to help employers to identify funding for this will be essential to the county’s eventual economic recovery. Seeing uke learning invest in Kent now shows real commitment, and is a positive sign when there are all too few at the moment.” |
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