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Local Businesses Challenged in Police Cybersecurity Workshop

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Local businesses recently gathered at Barnstaple Library for a special cybersecurity workshop organised by the South West Police Regional Cyber Crime Unit and Lineal Software Solutions Ltd. Thirty participants from firms across the South West took part in a series of Lego-based group exercises highlighting key concepts in cybersecurity, as they sought to protect a […]

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Industry calls for Apprenticeship Levy payers to be able to fund wider skills training from their Levy cash

Education, Employment & Skills, Manufacturing /

Britain’s manufacturers are calling for an urgent rethink to Government’s Apprenticeship Levy to make access to funding more flexible so that industry can develop the essential skills of the future. The call comes on the back of Make UK’s report An Unlevy Playing Field for Manufacturers, which reveals that 95% of manufacturers want to see

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Petroc celebrates multi-million pound collaborative bid success for new Institute of Technology.

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Petroc celebrates multi-million pound collaborative bid success for new Institute of Technology for the South West. A multi-million pound bid to revolutionise digital, engineering and manufacturing technology education across the South West has been successful, it has been announced. The new Institute of Technology will establish a range of new buildings and facilities across the

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Fully Funded short courses for SME’s

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The Strategic Employer Engagement in Devon (SEED) project is funded by the European Social Fund and is being facilitated by the Shaping Futures Project team at Petroc, Barnstaple. Strategic Employer Engagement in Devon works with SME’s to strengthen higher level vocational education and training.  These opportunities are fully funded. The definition of SME’s that the

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