With exam season fast approaching, young people UK-wide are hitting the books. To help get you started with revision, we’ve put together our top GCSE revision tips. We help people train, learn and develop their skills all year round, so here are our top tips for those of you revising this week… Plan! – Draw [...]
With fewer schools offering work placements, summer jobs for students are a good way to gain practical workplace experience – and they look great on your CV. There are a huge range of options available if you’re looking for work in the holidays, but our top tip is to start planning early and get your [...]
Whether you want to study in the UK at a traditional academic institution or attend a state-of-the-art development workshop, there is a great range of world-class training opportunities available. For international students, there is a range of benefits – everything from practising spoken English, sightseeing and submerging yourself in a truly multicultural society. We speak [...]
Salèha Pinhorn, Founder and Director of National Apprenticeship Expo 2012 (nae2k12), talks to us about apprenticeship trends, what the future might hold and what nae2k12 offers potential apprentices. What effect has rising University tuition fees had on apprenticeships? Figures from several independent surveys have indicated that the number of students applying to university has plummeted [...]
Continuing our ‘days in the lives’ of a range of apprentices in the run up to National Apprenticeship week in February, we meet Alan, a Business Administration Apprentice. I started an apprenticeship with a First Aid training provider 12 months ago. Its been a big change for me as I was training to be a [...]
In the run up to Nation Apprenticeship week in February, we’re bringing you a special blog miniseries on ‘days in the lives’ of a range of apprentices. This week we meet James, and find out what a typical day in the life of an Advanced Engineering Apprentice involves: I’m one of two Advanced Engineering Apprentices [...]
Apprenticeships have been hitting the headlines for a variety of reasons recently. First, we saw record number of apprenticeships, and then we heard about exaggerated figures. So what do we really need to know? Perhaps rather than focusing on the official statistic too much, more can be learnt by understanding the real impact apprenticeships can [...]
For those who haven’t seen it, Young Apprentice is a junior competition based on the same structure of business challenges as the adult version. We also strongly recommend you get yourself over to BBC iPlayer and catch up. It’s no secret that we’re business show geeks in the Help office, and for the last 10 [...]
It’s A Level Results day and our Twitter stream is throttled with results news, clearing updates and official exam statistics. We hope that you did get the results you were hoping for, but we’d like to share our clearing expertise with those who may be thinking about going through the process. Clearing sounds scary, but [...]
Here at Help Training Courses we see a wide range of people looking for training every day, whether it’s to advance their career or gain essential skills and experience. As exam season draws to a close, we’ll be publishing three special blogs on training options for young people, to help give you some ideas of [...]
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