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Singapore SMEs Benefit From Customized Skilling And Talent Development With Microsoft’s Let’s Skill Up Program | 2021-10-12 10:00:00

Scholarships are available to students who are enrolled in the mandated POST Skills Program, are in their second year of a two-year law enforcement program, or are in their third or fourth year of a four-year college criminal justice program. 

Ford Fund, Governors Work To Make Teen Drivers Better For nearly two decades, the Ford Fund and Governors have worked to make teen drivers better with grants totaling nearly $60 million. Advertisement Like it or not, though teens believe they are among the best drivers on the roadways, statistics prove otherwise. Indeed, younger drivers tend to account for the highest number of severe crashes in any jurisdiction. Teen Drivers Are The Top Group Torque News has looked at the figures, and while so...

A message from our Chief Executive Officer Welcome to our 2021 autumn edition of Globally Connected. Over the last twelve months, our Melbourne and...

Perched between his bed and a dresser, Michael Thomas sits on the floor of his Morgan Park home and tries to pass the time, stringing beads along a lanyard and waiting for the phone to ring. This is how the 46-year-old spends most days during the pandemic. Sometimes Thomas gets a call from one of the friends he met at The Chicago Lighthouse, a nonprofit that serves the visually impaired. Up ...

2021-05-10 01:31:33 GMT2021-05-10 09:31:33(Beijing Time) Xinhua English ACCRA, May 9 (Xinhua) -- The Ghanaian government will speed up the implementation of its proposed Jobs and Skills Program to promote skill development and offer job opportunities to the youth, Ghanas Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said here Sunday. The upcoming 200-million-U.S.-dollar program will strengthen the capacity of the private sector as well as small and medium enterprises to create jobs for the youth, he s...

City of Newcastle City of Newcastle is helping local businesses gain the skills to make the most of Newcastle’s emerging new economic opportunities with a $385,000 investment in its New Skills Program. From helping local businesses to embrace the digital age, developing ways to be more accessible or improve energy efficiency, the program aims to address a wide range of industry specific skills gaps over the next two years. Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes said the New Skills Program will provide opp...

Ottawa to fund 2,000 youth jobs in agricultural sector May 6, 2021 Ottawa has announced an investment to fund 2,000 jobs for youth in the agriculture sector. This investment amounts to $21.4 million to enhance the Youth Employment and Skills Program (YESP). Applications are now open. “In a time of labour shortages, this enhancement will also allow many employers to fill vacant positions,” says Marie-Claude Bibeau, federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food. Advertisment The YE...

Greenfield schools seek $20.4M budget HOULE Published: 4/28/2021 5:00:19 PM GREENFIELD — Greenfield School Department Interim Superintendent Judith Houle presented to the City Council Ways and Means Committee this week a proposed $22.8 million budget for fiscal year 2022 with a $2.4 million offset of grants and revolving funds, reducing the total budget to $20.4 million. Houle said that number is a 3.83 percent increase from this year’s $19.7 million budget, or $753,931. She said the dist...

OTTAWA - When COVID-19 forced the closure of department stores, Mary Junne Boyco and her co-workers lost their jobs, ending more than a decade of working in the service sector. Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough responds to a question during a news conference Thursday August 20, 2020 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld OTTAWA - When COVID-19 forced the closure of department stores, Mary Junne Boyco and her co-workers lost their jobs, ending more than a decade of working in the service s...