Workplace skills courses have been a compulsory part of vocationally-oriented undergraduate degrees, such as engineering, for several years.
Our computer skills courses are filled to capacity, and our goal is to offer many more classes throughout our branches.
A pilot project designed to encourage black adults to take basic skills courses has succeeded in recruiting just two people - both of whom are white.
Many believe the answer to these problems is an aptitude test to filter out those unlikely to secure traineeships before they embark on legal professional skills courses.
Karen Barnard, head of careers at UCL, said some degree courses already ran workplace skills courses, but students tended not to be awarded credits for attending them.
The company targets unemployed workers in Kalodyne in particular, offering literacy and basic skills courses – some of them are then recruited by the hotel.
In Swansea, as well as providing advice and information, Age Concern runs a hospital discharge scheme, carers' centre, lunch club and computer skills courses.
Our international students aren't going to come and study in the UK so that they can take corporate skills courses; they come to be taught by top academics".
Its mix of academic and vocational teaching – the apprenticeships on offer, basic skills courses, BTecs and higher education courses, teaching both young and older adults – can be confusing.
Indeed, the reason Your Voice Counts came about was because black and African-Caribbean learners have traditionally proved slow to take up basic skills courses.
In "earth skills" courses, students stay in makeshift shelters at a camp and study skills like plant identification and pottery making.
