#apprenticeship

#apprenticeship

David Cameron has urged ministers to use welfare reforms and training programmes to reduce the need for foreign labour, ahead of the release of figures expected to show record levels of net migration.The former prime minister, who never met his own goal of bringing net migration down to the tens of thousands, said he has sympathy with Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as they address the challenge.

An amateur footballer had both of his legs amputated days before his 21st birthday after becoming ill with flu symptoms.Levi Dewey, now 21, suffered multiple organ failure after catching a form of the flu and subsequently suffered severe sepsis and at one point was described as the sickest person in the country.

It's been about five months since the sudden and sad closure of San Francisco Cooking School, which operated for about a decade at Van Ness Avenue and Turk Street.Now, the San Francisco Business Times has the scoop on what comes next for the space.According to the publication, Bay Area-based non-profit Farming Hope has signed a lease on the space and will move its distribution kitchen and job training program to the Civic Center-adjacent location.

An apprenticeship at a steelmaker brought Steven Maillot from the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean to Eisenhuttenstadt in Germany, a stone's throw from the Polish border.Better pay and better job prospects were the deciding factors for Maillot a relief for ArcelorMittal, where the group's Germany chief Reiner Blaschek acknowledged that attracting young trainees like the 23-year-old is becoming increasingly difficult.

The first time I heard Sister Rosetta Tharpe's voice must have been when I was in high school in the 1970s.It most assuredly was coming out of our old Grundig radio, tuned, as it always was late on Saturday evenings in Chicago, to The Midnight Special on WFMT.This was the classical station that in 1953, in a groundbreaking program created by Mike Nichols, began playing the music of the American people.

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A Tube driver was removed from his role after opening the train doors on the wrong side of the platform, a tribunal heard.Standard
Two sections of the London Underground have been upgraded to offer 5G mobile phone coverage as part of the ongoing rollout of mobile coverage in the tube.

Students from Epping St John's School at the YES conference.Image: John Price An initiative that helps pupils enhance their employment prospects supported students from two Epping Forest schools in their latest session last week.The district's largest emergency food agency 3Food4U are partners of charity Youth Employment Strategy YES, and have the same leadership in chair of trustees Pesh Kapasiawala.

I closed my eyes to connect with my mom and the first thing I saw was a sparrow.'At the tail-end of a social media distraction scroll, I stared at my computer, transfixed.There on my Instagram feed was the perfect signet ring: atop a gold band rested the engraved emblem of a sparrow perched on a branch looking blissfully over its shoulder.

Alone one evening in early spring, seated on a green park bench beside the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass., I waited for Deb.The sun was setting and the temperature falling, and I was wearing my softball jersey and knickers and wishing I had remembered to bring my thick flannel shirt.Now, decades later, at my home in Iowa, I search for that bench on Google Maps.

Vennessa Rose doesn't mind the glances she gets when she's wearing her hard hat and construction gear."I think it's awesome to say I'm a plumber, especially as a woman.It's like a secret superpower," says the 21-year-old Toronto woman.Rose has found a satisfying career in the construction industry, though her gender is still vastly under-represented in Ontario.