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Young people in East Hampshire are to be offered skilled jobs on Whitehill & Bordon’s construction projects in a unique deal with developers. Apprentices will be given the construction skills they need to help build their home town’s...

Fancy a job in gold mining? The Canadian mining company Dalradian is aiming to create hundreds of jobs at a gold mine near Gortin in Co Tyrone. It's a billion-dollar project, but first it has to get planning permission. However if it does get the gre...

Social Democrats spokesperson on Education Equality and Access,  said today that much more needs to be done to equip students from disadvantaged schools to stay the course at university. Cllr Gannon was commenting on research form the Higher Edu...

The Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017, brought by Employment Affairs and Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty, T.D., has today (17th May 2018) cleared the Committee Stage in the Dáil.  The objective of the Bill is to im...

The number of apprenticeship starts this academic year is down by a quarter on the previous year, following the introduction of the government's Apprenticeship Levy policy. In the seven months to February 2018, the number of apprenticeship starts was...

Work and Pensions Committee calls on Government to remove the “cliff-edge” in benefit calculation that sees Carer’s Allowance - £64.60 per week – withdrawn in full as soon as Carers earn more than £120 a week. This...

MPs have launched a scathing attack on former directors of collapsed contractor Carillion. In a report following a joint inquiry by the Business Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee and the Work and Pensions Committee, the MPs castigated the comp...

Work and Pensions Committee Wednesday 16 May 2018 Meeting starts at 9.30am Agenda Subject: Benefit Sanctions Witnesses: Tony Wilson, Director of Policy and Research, Learning and Work Institute, Matthew Oakley, independent reviewer of JSA sancti...

Labour market statistics published The labour market statistics were published today by the Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency. Labour Force Survey (LFS) unemployment decreased over the quarter and the year * The latest NI seasonally a...

The Youth Select Committee has launched a new inquiry into barriers to work experience. The Committee is calling for evidence from a wide range of witnesses, including businesses and charities, as well as young people who have been directly affected...