Regional development Agency One North East has appointed the Skills Academy to project manage the apprenticeship project for the Tees Valley Industrial Programme (TVIP).

A new £2million national skills academy is to be set up in the region as part of plans for an education and science village.

Lord Mandelson today within his "New Industry, New Jobs: One Year on" speech has given the green light to an extension of the National Skills Academy Process Industries to create two new hubs for Biotechnology and Composites.

WEST MIDLANDS who want to create a worldclass workforce and beat off global competitors as the economy starts to recover can take advantage of a free business breakfast this month.

THE strategic alliance between Sector Skills Council to the science-based industries, Cogent SSC and the National Skills Academy Process Industries launched a new funding stream for higher level skills at Westminster last week, supported by industrialists from the process and nuclear industries.

A SPECIALIST industrial plastic welding training provider has become the first in its sector to benefit from a new training support scheme endorsed by the National Skills Academy Process Industries.

THE man responsible for turning round the fortunes of chemicals business Pentagon is now picking up the baton for UK skills. Glasgow-born Allan Laing, who led a management buyout that transformed two ailing companies into an award winning, £40m specialities and fine chemicals business in five years, has joined the main board of the National Skills Academy Process Industries.

THE CEO of the National Skills Academy Process Industries, Phil Jones, has called on the government to follow Scotland’s lead in developing innovative ways to help employers maintain their apprenticeship programmes in the face of the recession.

THE body set up to help process industries employers to plug crucial skills gaps has appointed its own young apprentice.

West Midlands-based Walsall College is one of five regional education and training providers that now have Academy endorsement, giving them access to hundreds of UK employers looking for specialist training to help them address the urgent skills crisis facing this £67 billion sector.

One of the country’s leading technical consultancies to process industries across the world has had its products and services officially endorsed by the National Skills Academy Process Industries.

ONE of the East Midlands’ leading providers of Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) management training has had its products and services officially endorsed by the National Skills Academy Process Industries.

A group of Teesside photography students are seeing their work showcased at the new headquarters of the National Skills Academy’s Process Industries in Darlington, thanks to a commission designed to encourage the region’s fledgling professional photographers.

THE National Skills Academy Process Industries has welcomed the first commercial training partner to have its products and services successfully accredited to skills academy standards, giving the training company access to hundreds of employers seeking skills training.

THE National Skills Academy Process Industries has welcomed a new member to its growing team.

ONE of the UK’s most senior industrialists is urging forward-thinking employers to attend a process industries skills summit to discuss ways they can avert the impending skills crisis.

A former chemist has joined the National Skills Academy Process Industries team, which has its headquarters in Darlington, to strengthen its links with employers representing the UK’s 345,000-strong process industries workforce.

North West process industries businesses are being urged to get involved with a group that can help them tap into millions of pounds worth of training funding.

PROCESS industries employers could find many of their problems neatly PAC-ed away through a project that aims to deliver an average 10-fold improvement on productivity and competitiveness, and all for an initial investment of just £700.