Working Knowledge is a national award winning skills and enterprise training company that partners with 27 FE Colleges and 76 Universities to deliver:
1. Events, Workshops and Training for STUDENTS and EMPLOYERS to bridge the gap between education and the workplace.
2. Consultancy and Training to colleges on Employer Engagement and Embedding Enterprise within curricula.
UK Skills National Training Award winners 2008.
Click play on the video below to view how Working Knowledge has supported students and staff from Redcar and Cleveland College (our original FE partners) and employers from the region.
News
Youth unemployment is costing the economy £10m a day
So the need to give students work and employability skills training is greater than ever.
The Guardian reported this alarming figure this month and added that an ‘aspect of the worrying trend in youth unemployment is that there are thousands of young people who don't have the skills, confidence or qualifications to find their first job. They may have struggled at school or grown up thinking no one cared, and they are being driven further from the job market, as they struggle to compete with a backlog of graduates.’
