News From North East January 2008
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- e-skills UK
- A Taste of Medicine
- Futureskills Scotland
- Destination of Leavers from Scottish Schools: 2006/07
- Careers in Oil and Gas Industry
- First School in Scotland to use Glow
- Introduction to Investment Operations
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Scottish Government Website
- Froth and Bubble
- Contributions
e-skills UK
e-skills UK is the Sector Skills Council for IT & Telecoms. Their website has information on the wide variety of jobs in Information Technology and Telecoms. There are lots of downloads and vodcasts to watch online. The vodcasts include case studies of people working within the industries.A Taste of Medicine
St George's University of London has come up with an interactive introduction to medicine… covers ‘Why study medicine?”…”What’s it like?” and “Where do I start?.” Includes games and video profiles. Informative and great fun!
(Thanks to Rosemary Maycock)
Futureskills Scotland
Futureskills Scotland's latest newsletter includes Sector Profiles and their latest Expert Briefings. There is also news of their move out of Scottish Enterprise to their new home within the Scottish Government, plus improvements they’ve made to their web-based research resource, Research Online.Destination of Leavers from Scottish Schools: 2006/07
Extract from the Scottish Government website…
“This presents national and Education Authority level information on the destinations of young people leaving Scottish schools (publicly funded and grant-aided secondary schools) and updates the publication Destinations of Leavers from Scottish Schools: 2005/06. Data linking the destinations of school leavers to pupil characteristics is presented for the first time. In addition, the accompanying tables include limited information on leavers from independent secondary schools.”
“The Main Findings for Leaver Destinations from Publicly Funded Secondary Schools are:
- Just under 87 per cent of 2006/07 school leavers are in positive destinations; higher education, further education, employment, voluntary work or training
- The proportion of young people entering full-time further or higher education has fallen slightly from just below 54 per cent in 2005/06 to just under 53 per cent in 2006/07
- The proportion of leavers entering employment has increased by around 2 percentage points to a little over 28 per cent in 2006/07
- The proportion who are unemployed and seeking employment or training has remained relatively stable at around 11 per cent since 2005/06
- The proportion who are unemployed and not seeking employment or training has decreased slightly to 1.5 per cent in 2006/07.”
The full report - School Leaver Destination Report 2006- 07.
Careers in the Oil and Gas Industry
Oil and Gas 4U is a great portal for anyone wanting to find out how to get into this industry. It has lots of useful information on: offshore and onshore opportunities, online skills testing and direct links to those companies who may be recruiting.
(Thanks to Nicola Graham and Marion Barron)
First School in Scotland to Use Glow
Extract from latest Glow Newsletter…
"The lights are switched on and the world’s first national education intranet is now being rolled out in Scotland. Renfrewshire, East Dunbartonshire, South Lanarkshire and Dundee are the four early adopters to start using Glow, with more to follow in the coming months. Lairdsland Primary in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, is the first school in Scotland to be using Glow in the classroom."
Introduction to Investment Operations
Sponsored places are now available on SIO's Introduction to Investment Operations course which will be running in March. The course will start on March 6 in Glasgow. This is an opportunity for those seeking to enter Scotland's investment sector.
Participants will learn about the world of investments, set them on a path to achieving a recognised qualification and allow them to network with employers who are currently looking for staff. Some 2/3rds of delegates who responded to recent SIO surveys following their course now work in the industry.
They are accepting applications at Scottish Investment Operations website
The closing date for applications is February 15.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
"The New Policy Institute has produced its tenth annual report of indicators of poverty and social exclusion in the United Kingdom, providing a comprehensive analysis of trends and differences between groups."
Scottish Government Website
| Date | Section | Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 23/11/2007 | Education and Skills |
Examining the Impact of EU Enlargement and the Introduction of the UK Citizenship Test on Provision of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in Scotland [Research Findings] |
| 11/12/2007 | Education and Skills |
Destinations of Leavers from Scottish Schools 2006/07 [Publication] |
| 11/12/2007 | Education and Skills |
Attendance and Absence in Scottish Schools 2006/07 [Publication] |
| 14/12/2007 | Education and Skills |
Evaluation of Individual Learning Accounts Scotland (ILA Scotland) - Learning Providers and Intermediary Agencies Studies[Research Publications] |
Froth and Bubble
Little known "facts" courtesy of the Queen’s University Belfast…no we didn’t check them…
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? -- One thousand
Contributions
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