People from across the North East are to benefit from a new set of digital training courses to develop specialist skills and improve their opportunities of securing a job with local businesses.

Adults across the North East are being given the opportunity to study and develop their skills for free thanks to a range of virtual courses offered by Gateshead College (@gatesheadcoll) 

A powerful industry-led consortium in Manchester is looking to build on the success of an award-winning higher apprenticeship scheme developed in Newcastle to create skilled jobs in the construction sector.

@gonortheast is working with @gatesheadcoll to recruit eight new apprentice bus and coach mechanical technicians keen to progress a career in transport engineering.  One of the region’s leading bus companies is on the hunt for apprentice engineers to bolster its growing and highly skilled team of home-grown talent.

A café that prides itself on serving fresh, homecooked meals is going from strength to strength despite opening just four weeks before the first lockdown last March.