Bytes Project open Flax Foyer project, offering training and prospect of employment to NEETs

A good news story via a friend who works with Bytes Project which opened a new centre in Flax Foyer, Ardoyne this afternoon. The charity aims to remove “barriers faced in accessing training or employment training and employment by assisting young people to overcome extreme social and educational disadvantage” enabling “young people to make a difference in their own lives, allowing them to become economically active and make a positive impact in their communities”. Bytes Project started back in June …

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Emphasis on youth skills rather than qualifications the way out of recession?

In the Republic the live register of unemployed hit the highest levels since the late 1990s. One aspect of it is the limited capacity for retraining, or training on the job. Eamon McDwyer, a local Cavan businessman told Slugger on the #RTERoadtrip that rigid enforcement of limits on jobseekers allowance an opportunity was being missed. Listen! In England, Professor Alison Wolf has been warning for some years of “a complete disintegration of the youth labour market”, as “successive governments obsessed …

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