Ride the Wave is fully funded by the Wider Key Skills Framework which offers a secure (until 2012) funding route. In addition the programme involves local businesses of all sizes who interact with the students in a professional manner at a ratio of 1:7 and helps to build and widen employer engagement. The students gain real workplace skills coupled to greater motivation and confidence. Indeed Ride the Wave has been proven to increase student retention.
If you would like to know more about Ride the Wave then please contact me
James Lott on 0870 720 1071 or review our website at
www.widerkeyskills.co.uk
Government funded training
25/03/08
BERR announced this week an extra £30 million funding for FE and Primary schools. Details of how the cake will be divided are as yet not clear but without doubt this funding is overdue. However, the danger, as with the enterprise entitlement in secondary schools is that with very little guidance on how to spend the money coupled with having to spread it extremely thinly across large numbers of students, its effectiveness can be limited.
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