The retailer will spend £70 million of their Levy Share to create around 7,000 apprenticeships over the next five years. The Co-op scheme allows levy paying employees to transfer unused apprenticeship funds for charities and any community organisations. Claire Costello, chief people and inclusion officer at Co-op, said: "We launched Co-op Levy Share to unlock unused levy funds and turn waste into opportunity. "Four years on, alongside our contributing partners, we've already channelled £40 million into thousands of life-changing apprenticeships, and today we're going further, committing £70 million to create 7,000 apprenticeships by 2030."
This is a re-issue of a long-standing R25 program announcement that aims to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation's biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs. To address this goal, this concept is specifically focused on courses for skills development. Courses are expected to facilitate the development of a cadre of investigators with the requisite scientific research skills to advance the mission of NIMH.
For five years, the federal government has been under a legal mandate to train acquisition professionals in using and buying artificial intelligence (AI). During that time, federal spending on AI has risen precipitously. As AI technology accelerates into the future, buying relevant, rapidly evolving capabilities requires foresight and understanding. Eighty percent of chief procurement officers (CPOs) surveyed plan to deploy AI tools for spend analytics, contract management and supplier selection over the next three years. Leaders are expecting that procurement operations will be radically better and faster than they are today.
Plumbers, electricians and welders are among 31 priority occupations that are "particularly in demand", with employment in renewable, wind, solar and nuclear expected to double to 860,000 in five years, ministers have said. Speaking on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said thousands of jobs were needed to develop Britain's clean energy sector to "get bills down for good".
Walmart on Thursday hosted more than 300 workplace experts and representatives from other companies participating in the Skills-First Workforce Initiative, a project to develop and fill stable jobs based on what people know how to do instead of whether they attended college. The retailer already has launched its own employee trainingand certification programs to meet Walmart's need for truck drivers and maintenance technicians, two roles for which U.S. companies say they can't recruit fast enough as experienced tradespeople retire.
Jobs and Skills Australia's report indicates that generative AI will significantly automate routine clerical jobs while enhancing roles requiring high skill levels.
"We're not just doing good for the environment. We're creating paid work and valuable job experience," said Renee Ruhl, Intervine program director. "This is really a social enterprise, because..."
