Google is bringing its Google Digital Garage to Bideford Business Expo (BBxpo) on 24 October 2019, offering North Devon businesses free advice and coaching on their digital skills to help them grow in their business, career or confidence. The Google Digital Garage is one of Google’s flagship investment programmes in the UK, where anyone can … Read more
Entries are now open for the North Devon Manufacturers Association’s North Devon Technology Awards – for students 13-19 years – which aim to encourage the manufacturers of the future. These awards enable school and college students to showcase their technology projects to win an industry award. There is also a £100 cash prize. Winners will … Read more
4–8 March is National Careers Week in schools, a focus for careers support for young people leaving education, but it’s not only those starting their careers who need advice. Now Teach, which creates a route for people with decades of experience to become teachers, has worked with YouGov to produce a report examining career satisfaction in Britain. … Read more
Manufacturing is an important part of the North Devon economy and local businesses are struggling to recruit candidates for roles requiring higher level technical skills. National shortages in technical skills compound this problem for businesses in North Devon and Torridge, who see young talent leaving the region for Higher Education elsewhere, and not returning after … Read more
A North Devon young enterprise team supported by TDK Corporation has won Best Company Presentation award at the South West Enterprise final. TDK Corporation is supporting Ilfracombe Academy’s Young Enterprise team and, after attending two trade fairs in Exeter, the Academy’s ‘Wood on Waves’ team presented its ‘better our beaches’ vintage body boards at the regional Young … Read more
After studying Psychology, at Cambridge University as part of a Natural Sciences degree, Bella Given embarked on a career in marketing. Over the course of 20 years, she marketed brands such a Beefeater Gin, Solpadeine and Hedex, Snack-a-Jacks and Huggies nappies, and successfully created and marketed two of her own businesses: a South West London Garden Design … Read more
As part of its activities during National Apprenticeship Week, EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, provides 10 key facts about apprenticeships and their importance and value to the sector and the wider economy: 72% of manufacturers say raising awareness of apprenticeships will get more young people into engineering. 79% of manufacturers were committed to recruiting engineering apprentices … Read more
Engineers from TDK-Lambda UK in Ilfracombe, North Devon supported a team of students from the town’s Ilfracombe Academy with its entry to the international STEM competition, F1 in Schools. This is part of an extensive programme that TDK-Lambda engineers are engaged in to help promote, encourage and support STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education to … Read more
Applegate is offering to match savings made by degree apprentices up to £10,000 after tax to provide a deposit to buy a home locally in North Devon. Under its new ‘First Rung’ scheme, Applegate’s degree apprentices will be encouraged to put aside part of the pay rises they receive into a saving scheme of their … Read more
