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DEBATE SKILLS MAKING THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS


PRESENT: Richard Slater


Lancashire Business View (Chair)


Sara Gaskell


Lancashire Skills Hub Robin Lindsay


North Lancs Training Group Gill Aquilina Nelson and Colne College Sarah Hall


Blackpool and Fylde College Linzi Monks


Preston College


Lancashire’s ‘Early Connect’ pilot provides a significant opportunity for employers to raise the visibility of their business and apprenticeship opportunities and attract college and sixth form leavers.


For the first time, apprenticeship opportunities are featuring on the UCAS system – the system that young people engage with to apply for higher education courses. The aim is to raise the visibility of apprenticeships and helping young people to make informed decisions about their next steps.


We asked our expert panel what impact it will have when they came together at the headquarters of James Hall & Co in Preston.


Paul Armson James Hall & Co


Yasmine Hooson Veka PLC


Megan Salkeld Burnley College


Claire Shore Blackburn College Lisa Kennery


Pierce Business Advisory Chris Speakman


Speakman Contractors


Martin Blunt, head of the Enterprise and Engagement Unit at UCLan


We’re advertising our degree apprenticeships through the Apprenticeship Service, which then pulls through to UCAS.


Is the message getting through to parents and students? FE providers are going to be instrumental in the communication needed.


Equally there are not enough jobs at that level to give them those choices. We have more than 1,000 students waiting for those opportunities and we’re only filling about 20 or 30 in the first nine months.


The demand coming through is phenomenal IN ASSOCIATION WITH: Martin Blunt


Martin Blunt UCLan


Ben Lee


Sundown Solutions David Walker


Plus 24 Marketing


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