ACE Winches Backs Pilot Engineering Course
specialist ACE Winches, in partnership with Turriff Academy, ITCA Training and Aberdeenshire Council, has launched a pilot engineering course for Turriff Academy pupils. The senior phase course aims to meet the development needs of Scotland’s Young Workforce, a framework led by Sir Ian Wood supporting organizations looking to recruit, retain and develop young people and backs ACE Winches’ wider youth development CSR strategy. The seven-month pilot session will support 16 pupils and deliver three theory units based at school using ITCA resources and two practical
Hydro Group: Invest in the Future
shows a clear commitment to the next generation of employees Figures published earlier this year show that Scotland’s current levels of youth unemployment (16-24-year-olds) is at 853,000 – 18.8 percent – more than double that of the average age working population. According to Sir Ian Woods’s new report, Scotland's vocational education system must be improved if youth unemployment is to fall. He launched the report aimed at getting more young Scots into work recommending that employers play a far bigger role in schools and colleges. One company that prides itself on committing
