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Sunday, May 29, 2005
Ready for Work launched - free national online learning programme for young people entering the workplace - The Training Foundation, Coventry, UK
New employment-awareness programme focused on respect, enterprise and responsibility is welcomed by leaders in education and industry. The Training Foundation, which in April 2005 became the first ever training organisation to be awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise - Innovation, has announced a national online learning initiative. The Ready for Work online training programme is free to all young people in (or recently in) full-time education and those in modern apprenticeships. Leading bodies across education (HTI, Heads, Teachers & Industry and learndirect) and industry (the Confederation of British Industry and the British Chambers of Commerce) have warmly welcomed the initiative. Sir Richard Branson is passionate about developing the potential of young people and set up a Student Advisory Centre when just 17 years of age. He welcomed the Ready for Work programme; "My view is that both secondary and university education fail to foster entrepreneurial ambition. We need our young people, on which the Country's future prosperity depends, to be equipped with an appreciation of business, so that they can set out with a spirit of enterprise. I welcome the Ready for Work programme. Co-operation between employers and educators on initiatives like this can do nothing but good."
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