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Building your future with construction skills
...clear. Listening and understanding are just as important. You’ll need basic maths and writing skills for building projects, to measure strips of wood, gauge numbers of bricks and calculate the...
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Success Through Skills Awards celebrate work-based learning
Last night, training providers ACT and ALS hosted their inaugural Success Through Skills Awards at Cardiff and Vale College. The event celebrated learners, employers, training providers and tutors who have...
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SkillsCymru is back and ACT are there!
SkillsCymru is back! An interactive career and skills events for Wales featuring top employers and Wales’ leading training provider ACT. Want to know more about work-based learning? Then come and...
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Young apprentices take on top UK firms at ‘Employ Me’ day for National Apprenticeship Week
...Training. Those present looked at how individual skill sets can best be matched with the needs of businesses at the event, held after a newly launched 10-year Skills Strategy for...
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New Aberdare skills centre welcomes MP
Learners at ACT Training’s spacious new skills centre in Aberdare welcomed Beth Winter MP. The Cynon Valley MP was shown the modern facilities in the three-storey building, on Aberdare’s busy...
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Get your CV tip-top for 2017
...of employers and tailor your CV to the job you’re applying for instead. Consider what skills the employer might be looking for and highlight the most relevant skills to that...
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ACT Founder and CEO Andrew Cooksley joins entrepreneurial Cardiff Business School scheme
...start-ups, offering advice and guidance to budding young entrepreneurs. The six entrepreneurs will also have the opportunity to collaborate with Cardiff Business School staff in fields such as strategic business...
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Excellence in skills development celebrated as 37 award finalists announced
‘Excellence in skills development by learners, employers and learning providers will be showcased as 37 finalists compete for honours in a dozen categories at this year’s prestigious Apprenticeship Awards Cymru....
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Still confused by the Apprenticeship Levy one year on?
...many levy-paying Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish businesses. With the devolved nations being in charge of their own skills policy, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland received a population-based share of...