Training services

Tender description

The college require partners to support in the delivery of training. We require suitably qualified organisations to deliver volumes of student and graduate placements and internships to SMEs in the NELEP area. The aim of the service is to make education and training provision more responsive to the needs of the economy, so that employers' skills needs are more quickly and more effectively met, and individuals receive better designed skills provision which equips them for the world of work. The service must support students and graduates to become job ready and to raise awareness of current and future job opportunities offered by locally based businesses. The service must encourage and support local businesses to offer students and graduates opportunities to gain industry relevant experience and to encourage employment. Students must be studying towards a minimum L3 qualification and the placement must not replace any mandatory placement element of their programme of study. Placements are for a minimum of 4 weeks and internships would last no longer.