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Apprenticeships need more employer buy-in
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Posted by on February 9, 2010 9:05 AM
The rising tide of young people out of work is a sobering reminder of the trail of destruction left by the recession.
Official figures show that the North-east has more NEETs - 16-24-year-olds not in education, employment or training - as a percentage of its young population than anywhere else in the UK.
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The end or a new beginning?
Posted by on February 23, 2010 8:00 AM
Last week's mothballing of the Corus steel-making plant in Redcar drew the curtain down on a proud tradition stretching back 150 years on Teesside.
The official line is that 1,600 jobs will be lost, but hundreds more will go as the pain of last week's action reverberates through the North-east supply chain.
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