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iAfrica Image: Supplied Share with your network! If single family units found it difficult to adjust to life under lockdown, one can only imagine the enormity of the task that awaited South Africa’s non-profits. With so many lives dependent on their operations, these organisations were not only required to adapt their models to satisfy the existing need, but had to do so under exceptionally trying economic circumstances. It required instant and innovative thinking to meet the considerable challenges. Despite the ove...
Argyllshire Advertiser Holly Kennedy's advice is to get stuck into the pre-apprenticeship scheme. Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall, However, rest assured that access to all Covid related news will still remain free.
Farm apprentice grant scheme worth £5000 © Shutterstock / Photoagriculture HOPE: The NFUS said a grant could be the incentive farmers need to help someone secure a future in the industry. Farmers and crofters who are considering taking on an employee in the next few weeks are being urged to apply for an Apprenticeship Employer Grant (AEG). The fund, which is worth up to £5,000 to an employer, is open until March 25, and the grant is open to all sectors. The farmers’ union’s (NFUS) skills development manager, George Jamieson, said for those who have been swithering about taking on an ap...
Premium Content Subscriber only Sixty new apprentices begin work with BMA in the Bowen Basin this week, with a recruitment drive is underway for more than 60 more. The Class of ’21 is a diverse group, with more female apprentices than male, from school leavers through to mature age. More than 85 per cent of them come from regional Queensland and nearly one-quarter are Indigenous. Sixty New BMA Apprentices have completed the Work Readiness Program at Emerald TAFE Chloe Tougher, who just finished Year 12 at Yeppoon High School, is heading to Blackwater to begin her boilermaker apprenticeshi...